Key to Convolvulus

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(For a list of species in Convolvulus, use the above link.)

Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.

1. Upper leaves deeply 3–many-lobed, 

lobes 

1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth.

± 

linear 

Elongate, with nearly parallel sides; narrower than elliptic or oblong.

..... [C. althaeoides]

1' Upper leaves 

entire 

Having margins that are continuous and smooth (i.e., without teeth, lobes, etc.).

to 

hastate 

Arrowhead-shaped, with two basal lobes oriented more or less perpendicularly to the long axis.

, lobes wider than linear

2. Leaf hastate, petioled; corolla white, ± pink abaxially, especially at folds ..... C. arvensis

2' Leaf obovate to oblanceolate, ± 

sessile 

Without a petiole, peduncle, pedicel, or other kind of stalk.

, narrowed to base; corolla pale-pink or -blue or white with yellow base, blue tips

3. Corolla ± 0.6 cm, pale-pink or -blue ..... C. simulans

3' Corolla 1.4–4 cm, center yellow, perimeter blue-purple, white between ..... [C. tricolor]

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