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Small Flowered Morning Glory

Convolvulus simulans

Small Flowered Morning Glory
Photo: Chloe and Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0
Family
Convolvulaceae (Morning-glory family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
California to Arizona and Mexico (Baja California)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Convolvulus simulans is a species of annual plant in the morning glory family known as the small-flowered morning-glory and small-flowered bindweed. It is an inconspicuous vining plant that is characterized by tiny pale pink or pale blue bell-shaped flowers. It is typically restricted to clay and serpentine substrates in annual grassland, coastal sage scrub and chaparral habitats. This species is native to Arizona, California, and Baja California. Some taxonomies place this species under Convolvulus equitans.

Where it grows

This plant is native to the United States and Mexico, and is found within the boundaries of Arizona, California, and Baja California. In Arizona, this species is found in Gila County, in the Tonto Basin. In California, this species is found in the southern foothills of the Sierra Nevada, the San Francisco Bay Area, the South Coast Ranges, the Channel Islands, and is most densely distributed in southern California. In Baja California, this species is distributed in the northwestern part of the state, south to El Rosario.

Other Convolvulus plants

Mallow bindweed · Blushing Bindweed · Field Bindweed · Convolvulus aschersonii · Cantabrian Bindweed · Desert Bindweed · Silverbush · Texas bindweed · Convolvulus erinaceus · Pinkflower bindweed · Wild Bindweed · Convolvulus fernandesii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Convolvulus simulans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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