Calystegia purpurata

Calystegia purpurata

Calystegia purpurata is a species of the genus of the fence winds ( Calystegia ) from the family of wind plants ( Convolvulaceae ). The species is widespread endemic to California.

Description

Calystegia purpurata is a perennial or semi- shrub-like plant that forms a woody caudex as Überdauerungsorgan. The plant is glabrous and often come out with blue-green. The branches are decumbent to strong climbing and up to 7 m long. The leaf blade is usually 1.5 to 5 cm long, lobed triangular, with projecting lobes. These are two or tricuspid, the sheet is V-shaped or more or less closed.

The inflorescences consist of one to five flowers, the inflorescence stems tower over their accompanying leaves significantly. The bracts are 2-16 mm long, 0.4 to 1.5 mm wide, mostly linear in shape and put 3 to 16 mm below the calyx on to overlap mostly without him. Sepals have a length of 7 to 14 mm. The crown is white or cream -colored to violet colored and often streaked more or less purple. It has a length of 23-52 mm.

Dissemination

The species is endemic to California near the Pacific coast. It grows in chaparral and coastal shrub formations at altitudes below 300 m.