''Convolvulus'' is a genus of about 200 to 250''Convolvulus''.
Flora of China.''Convolvulus''
The Jepson eFlora. 2013. species of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae,Parnell, J. and Curtis, T. 2012. ''Webb's An Irish Flora''. Cork University Press. with a

cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...

. Common names include bindweed and morning glory; both names shared with other closely related

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...

Description

They are annual or

perennial A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. The term ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also wide ...

herbaceous Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials. Definitions of "herb" and "herbaceous" The fourth edition of t ...

vine A vine (Latin ''vīnea'' "grapevine", "vineyard", from ''vīnum'' "wine") is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas or runners. The word ''vine'' can also refer to such stems or runners themselv ...

s, bines and (a few species of) woody

shrub A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...

s, growing to 0.3–3 m tall. The

leaves A leaf (plural, : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant plant stem, stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", wh ...

are spirally arranged, and the

flower A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechani ...

s trumpet-shaped, mostly white or pink, but blue, violet, purple, or yellow in some species.

Ecology

Many of the species are

invasive Invasive may refer to: *Invasive (medical) procedure *Invasive species *Invasive observation, especially in reference to surveillance *Invasively progressive spread of disease from one organ in the body to another, especially in reference to cancer ...

weeds; but others are cultivated for their attractive

s, while some are globally threatened. ''Convolvulus'' species are used as food plants by the

larva A larva (; plural larvae ) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle. The ...

e of some

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

species, including the

convolvulus hawk moth ''Agrius convolvuli'', the convolvulus hawk-moth, is a large hawk-moth. It is common throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, partly as a migrant. In New Zealand, it is also known as the kumara moth, and in the Māori language ...

, the sweet potato leaf miner (''Bedellia somnulentella'') and the gem; the

leaf miner A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths (Lepidoptera), sawflies (Symphyta, the mother clade of wasps), ...

Bucculatrix cantabricella ''Bucculatrix cantabricella'' is a moth in the family Bucculatricidae. It was described by Pierre Chrétien in 1898. It is found in the western and central Mediterranean region, east to Slovakia and North Macedonia. The wingspan is 7–8 m ...

'' feeds exclusively on ''C. cantabricus''.

Gallery

File:PikiWiki Israel 7035 Plants of Israel.jpg, '' C. dorycnium'' Image:Convolvulus sabatius0.jpg, '' C. sabatius'' Image:Convolvulus tricolor.jpg, Cultivated '' C. tricolor'' File:Convolvulus althaeoides 1-fruto.jpg, '' C. althaeoides'' File:Convolvulus arvensis -flower view 01.jpg, '' C. arvensis'' File:Семечко вьюнка.jpg, Seed under a microscope

References

External links

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Flora Europaea: ''Convolvulus''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q147507 Convolvulaceae genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus

Description

Ecology

Gallery

See also

References

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