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Feltleaf Clustervine

Jacquemontia abutiloides

Also called Feltleaf Morning Glory

Feltleaf Clustervine
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0

Feltleaf clustervine is a woody, shrubby, sometimes vining perennial from the Baja California peninsula and nearby islands, with woolly leaves and blue to white flowers. It suits dry, sunny conditions and is rarely grown outside its native desert and shrubland habitat.

Family
Convolvulaceae (Morning-glory family)
Grows as
Shrub, Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry out fully between waterings, as it is adapted to arid conditions.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gritty soil.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Mexico (Baja California, islands in Gulf of California)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Jacquemontia abutiloides is a species of vining plant in the bindweed family (Convolvulaceae) commonly known as the felt-leaf clustervine or felt-leaf morning-glory. A perennial characterized by wooly leaves and blue to whitish flowers, this species grows as a woody plant to shrub with vining upper stems. Flowering is from September to June. It is near-endemic to the Baja California peninsula, Mexico, concentrated mostly around the central peninsula south of the Vizcaino Desert, and found on some of the coastal islands.

Where it grows

Endemic to Mexico, this species is native to the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, and Sonora. It occurs from the extreme southeast portion of Baja California state south to the Cape region of Baja California Sur. It is present on the Magdalena and Santa Margarita islands of the Pacific Coast of the Baja California peninsula, and it is also found on several Gulf of California islands, including Tiburon Island of Sonora.

Other Jacquemontia plants

Pineland clustervine · Skyblue clustervine · Beach clustervine · Hairy clustervine · Clustervine

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Jacquemontia abutiloides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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