Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

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Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Convolvulaceae
Calystegia catesbeiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Convolvulaceae
Calystegia catesbeiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Convolvulaceae
158-06-003
Calystegia sericata

Common Name:
Blue Ridge Bindweed, Catesby's Bindweed

Vine
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare (GA Special Concern)
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it in longleaf pine savannas, openings in dry to dry-mesic montane forests, per Weakley's Flora


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...Moist ...Variable ...Dry

Leaves:
Simple
Alternate

Flower:
Summer
White
5-merous or rarely 4-merous
campanulate to funnelform corolla
Superior ovary

Fruit:
Summer
Capsule

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p148
Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia p075?
Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p130




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May
Oconee County SC

 

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October
Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

Distinguished by soft, felty pubescence on the trailing stem & leaves, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.

 

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