Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Calystegia soldanella

Flower and leaves. Photographer Richard Hartland, New Zealand

Flower and leaves. Photographer Richard Hartland, New Zealand

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Barragoot Lake south of Bermagui

Common name

Sea Bindweed

Family

Convolvulaceae

Where found

Coastal dunes and rocky areas.

Notes

Perennial herb with trailing or rarely twining stems. Hairless. Leaves somewhat fleshy, alternating along the stems, 1.5–4 cm long, 20–60 mm wide, more or less kidney shaped, margins wavy. Flowers white, pink or purplish, 30–50 mm long, trumpet-shaped, with 5 lobes. Stigma with 2 lobes. Sepals free from each other. Bracteoles broadly oval, tips blunt to rounded, 10–15 mm long, slightly shorter than the sepals. Flowers single. Flowers Spring to Summer.

Vulnerable Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Calystegia~soldanella 
(accessed 7 January, 2021)