4357

Herbaceous vine
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare

Look for it in openings, woodland edges, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pale pink
5-merous or rarely 4-merous
5 sepals
Shallowly 5-lobed (or merely wavy-edged) campanulate to funnelform corolla
5 stamens
Superior ovary

Flowers solitary in leaf axils

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Convolvulus americanus   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calystegia sepium ssp. americana   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Calystegia sepium ssp. americanum

INCLUDING Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Convolvulus sepium var. americanus

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-06-002:
Calystegia sepium   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Convolvulus sepium var. repens

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Convolvulus americanus

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Convolvulus repens