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Convolvulaceae
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JANAS 30(2)
PLANTS: Trees, shrubs, herbs, or vines, the sap milky in some species; rootstocks swollen and fleshy to fibrous. LEAVES: simple, entire to pinnately lobed, pectinate, or palmately compound, exstipulate. INFLORESCENCE: axillary cymes, racemes, panicles, or flowers solitary. FLOWERS: perfect (in ours), actinomorphic, hypogynous, small and inconspicuous to large and showy, but mostly wilting quickly; sepals 5, distinct, imbricate, equal or unequal, persistent, occasionally accrescent in fruit; petals 5 united; stamens 5, distinct, epipetalous; pistil of 2-3(-6) carpels, the ovary 1-4-locular, the styles 1-2, the stigmas variable. FRUITS: capsules, utricles, or baccate. SEEDS: 1-4, glabrous or pubescent. NOTES: About 55 genera, 1200 spp.; most common in the tropics and sub-tropics. Includes sweet potato REFERENCES: Austin, Daniel F. 1998. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Convolvulaceae 30(2): 61.
Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Vine
Species within checklist: South Dakota
Calystegia macounii
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Calystegia sepium
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Convolvulus ambigens
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Convolvulus arvensis
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Convolvulus incanus
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Convolvulus interior
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Convolvulus purpureus
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Convolvulus repens
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Cuscuta arvensis
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Cuscuta campestris
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Cuscuta cephalanthi
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Cuscuta coryli
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Cuscuta curta
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Cuscuta cuspidata
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Cuscuta epithymum
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Cuscuta glomerata
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Cuscuta gronovii
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Cuscuta indecora
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Cuscuta megalocarpa
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Cuscuta pentagona
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Cuscuta suaveolens
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Cuscuta umbrosa
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Evolvulus argenteus
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Evolvulus nuttallianus
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Evolvulus pilosus
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Grammica campestris
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Grammica cephalanthi
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Grammica coryli
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Grammica cuspidata
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Grammica gronovii
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Grammica pentagona
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Grammica umbrosa
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Ipomoea barbigera
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Ipomoea desertorum
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Ipomoea hederacea
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Ipomoea hirsutula
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Ipomoea leptophylla
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Ipomoea nil
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Ipomoea purpurea
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Pharbitis barbigera
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Pharbitis hederacea
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Pharbitis purpurea
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Strophocaulos arvensis
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