Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Calystegia marginata

Flower, buds, and leaves. Photographer Richard Hartland, Noojee, Vic?

Flower bud showing bracteole, and leaf. Photographer Bill Campbell, New Zealand

Common name

Forest Bindweed

Family

Convolvulaceae

Where found

Forest, moist gullies, and stream banks. Coast, ranges, and the eastern part of the tablelands.

Notes

Perennial herb with twining stems. Hairless. Leaves alternating along the stems, 3–10 cm long, 15–80 mm wide, arrow head shaped, basal lobes toothed or shallowly lobed, tips pointed. Flowers white to pale pink or mauve, about 20 mm long, trumpet-shaped, with 5 lobes. Stigma with 2 lobes. Sepals free from each other. Bracteoles oval to round, tips rounded to notched, 6–12 mm long, equal to or longer than the calyx. Flowers single. Flowering: spring–summer.

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