Soft Bindweed (Convolvulus pilosellifolius)
Description
Perennial herb, 30-70 (-130) cm high. Stems not much branched, ascending or prostrate, appressed pilose mixed with patent hairs. Leaves 15-40 x 3-5 mm, sessile, the lower leaves bigger, linear-oblong to oblanceolate, the upper smaller, lanceolate, attenuate, acute to acuminate, margin entire or sometimes undulate, leaves appressed pilose, with or without spreading hairs. Flowers 1-3, axillary, on .slender lateral branches. Bracts 5-8mm long, linear to lanceolate, acute. Pedicel up to 5 mm long, densely pilose. Sepals 5: mm long, densely pilose, upper portion green, lower pale-white, the outer sepals obovate, acute, the inner ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, basally convex. Corolla pink, 10-12 mm long. Stamens unequal. Ovary glabrous, style as long as the stigmas, glabrous. Capsule 4-5 mm long, seeds black, densely short pubescent.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Solanales
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Family: Convolvulaceae
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Genus: Convolvulus
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