EcoFlora - Calystegia

Calystegia
Family: Convolvulaceae	VPAP Gleason & Cronquist Resources JANAS 30(2) PLANTS: Herbs. STEMS: twining to erect, glabrous or pubescent. LEAVES: glabrous or pubescent, ovate, the bases sagittate to hastate. INFLORESCENCE: axillary, of solitary flowers or few flowered cymes. FLOWERS: sepals equal, ovate, ovate-lanceolate to oblong, usually glabrous; corolla funnelform, white or pink, 3-6 cm long, glabrous or puberulent on the margins of the limb, especially the apices of lobes; stamens included, equal, the filaments sometimes with glandular trichomes basally; ovary ovoid, glabrous, 2-locular basally and l-locular apically, 4-ovulate, the style 1, glabrous, the 2 stigma lobes oblong, flattened. FRUITS: capsular, 4-valved, surrounded by enlarged sepals and sometimes by bracts. SEEDS: 1-4, glabrous, black to dark brown, smooth to verrucose. NOTES: Ca. 12 spp.; U.S. and Eurasia. (Greek: caly = beautiful + stegia = roof in reference to the bracts). Brummitt, R. K. 1965. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gar-d. 52:214-216; 1981. Kew Bull. 35:327-334. REFERENCES: Austin, Daniel F. 1998. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Convolvulaceae 30(2): 61. Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Much like Convolvulus in aspect, but the bracts usually large, inserted just beneath the cal, and ±concealing it; pollen spheroidal, pantoporate with 20-40 apertures; ovary ±unilocular, the partition incomplete; stigmas oblong, ±cylindric, blunt; fls usually solitary; our spp. rhizomatous perennials. 30, widespread. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: Sycamore Land Trust: Powell Nature Preserve Calystegia atriplicifolia Map not Available Calystegia binghamiae Images not available Map not Available Calystegia catesbeiana Map not Available Calystegia catesbiana Map not Available Calystegia collina Map not Available Calystegia felix Map not Available Calystegia fraterniflora Images not available Map not Available Calystegia fulcrata Map not Available Calystegia hederacea Map not Available Calystegia inflata Images not available Map not Available Calystegia longipes Map not Available Calystegia macounii Map not Available Calystegia macrostegia Map not Available Calystegia malacophylla Map not Available Calystegia marginata Images not available Map not Available Calystegia occidentalis Map not Available Calystegia peirsonii Map not Available Calystegia pellita Map not Available Calystegia pubescens Map not Available Calystegia purpurata Map not Available Calystegia sepium Map not Available Calystegia sericata Map not Available Calystegia silvatica Map not Available Calystegia soldanella Map not Available Calystegia spithamaea Map not Available Calystegia stebbinsii Map not Available Calystegia subacaulis Map not Available Calystegia tuguriorum Map not Available Calystegia vanzuukiae Map not Available Calystegia villosa Map not Available