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Photographer: Janice Stiefel
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Family Convolvulaceae
Calystegia spithamaea (L.) Pursh
low bindweed, low false bindweed
Calystegia: from two Greek words kalux, "cup," and stegos, "a covering," and thus meaning "a covering cup" (?)
spithamaea: a span high
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 3"-20" tall forb |
| Flower: | white to pink, 5-parted, 1 1/2"-2 3/4" long, funnel-shaped, petals shallowly-lobed, bracts large and just below the mostly equal sepals;  usually solitary in each leaf axil; blooms June-July |
| Leaf: | oblong, stalk less than half as long as the leaf midvein  |
| Habitat: | dry; forests, woods, fields; in rocky, sandy soil |
| (Glossary) |
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