Convolvulaceae Wildflowers

Beach Morning Glory, Goatsfoot

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 01:15:00 GMT

pomoea pes-caprae subsp. brasiliensis is a trailing glabrous (smooth) vine with purple stems that often root at the nodes. The fleshy oblong to suborbicular leaves are 3 to 10 cm long and notched at the tip. They are simple and alternately arranged. Flowers are axillary, solitary or in few-flowered cymes up to 15 cm long. The calyx has 5 unequal, ovate to elliptic sepals 8 to 13 mm long. The corolla is funnel-shaped, pink to rose-purple, 3 to 5 cm long, and shallowly 10-lobed. There are 5 stamens and the ovary is superior. The fruit is an ovoid to subglobose capsule, 12 to 17 mm long, containing 4 dark, ovoid, densely hairy seeds 6 to 10 mm long. (Whistler 1992) Ipomoea pes-caprae subsp. brasiliensis is a prostrate, glabrous, somewhat succulent seashore plant. The stems contain a milky latex and may reach 20 meters in length. The oblong to rounded leaves have a long petiole (leaf stalk) and are slightly notched to shallowly bilobed. They are mucronate (i.e., ending in a sharp tip) at the apex and rounded to truncate or subcordate at the base, slightly leathery, and on the undersurface have a visible gland on each side at the base of the midrib. The inflorescence contains 1 to several flowers. Pedicels (flower stalks) are 2 to 5 cm long and slender. The sepals are obtuse or rounded at the apex and mucronate; the inner sepals are about 1 cm long, the 2 outer sepals are shorter. The fruit is an ovoid-globose capsule, 1.5 cm long that dehisces (naturally opens) into 4 valves.The capsule contains 4 densely dark brown pubescent seeds. (Liogier 1995)
Family: Convolvulaceae Genus: Ipomoea Species: Ipomoea pes-caprae Main Flower Colour: Pink

Bonamia erecta

John Baas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:57:00 GMT

Shrub, to 0.4 m high. Stems, leaves and buds covered with short golden/brown hairs. Flowers white-cream, Jul. Red sand.
Family: Convolvulaceae Genus: Bonamia Species: erecta Main Flower Colour: White

Dune Flower - Goat's-foot Convolvulus, Railroad Vine, Beach Morning Glory

Cienne — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:24:00 GMT

Sparse creeper growing over higher area of sandy beach. Two toned pink flower with star pattern, light green leaves.
Family: Convolvulaceae Genus: Ipomoea Species: pes-caprae Main Flower Colour: Pink

Grassy Bindweed

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:57:00 GMT

Perennial with trailing and twining branches; stems terete, sparsely to densely appressed hairy. Leaves fairly uniform in shape from base to tip of stem; lamina ovate or oblong, 1–8 cm long, 5–40 mm wide, apex acute to obtuse and finely mucronate, base hastate or sagittate, basal lobes entire or rarely with short recurved lobes, margins entire with no ascending lobes, sparsely to densely hairy with appressed silvery hairs; petiole 2–20 mm long. Inflorescence 1–2(-3)-flowered, solitary in the leaf axils; peduncle filiform, 5–42 mm long, moderately to densely hairy with appressed hairs. Sepals to 6.5 mm long, silky. Corolla funnel-shaped, 8–13 mm long, 8–20 mm diam., pink.
Family: Convolvulaceae Genus: Convolvulus Species: remotus Main Flower Colour: Pink

Poison Morning Glory

Member - Greenleader 13 — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:57:00 GMT

Spreading creeper, dark green heart shaped leaves, purple/mauve/pink flowers that are funnel shaped and 7 or 8cm across.
Family: Convolvulaceae Genus: Ipomoea Species: muelleri Main Flower Colour: Mauve

Weir Vine

John Baas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:58:00 GMT

Climber, to 6 m high. Fl. purple-blue-pink, Jan to Jun. Red sandy & clayey soils, pebbly loam. Undulating plains, dunes, hardpans.
Family: Convolvulaceae Genus: Ipomoea Species: calobra Main Flower Colour: Pink