View source for Evolvulus sericeus

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|accepted_name=Evolvulus sericeus
|accepted_authority=Swartz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.,
|place=55. 1788
|year=1788
}}
|common_names=Silver dwarf morning glory
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Evolvulus macilentus
|authority=Small
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Evolvulus;Evolvulus sericeus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Convolvulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Evolvulus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Evolvulus sericeus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>or subshrubs; herbage hairy, hairs appressed to ± spreading. <b>Stems</b> ascending or procumbent, 10–30 cm. <b>Leaves</b> distichous, distals ± spreading; blade elliptic, lanceolate, oblong, or ovate, 4–25 × 2–10 mm, surfaces: abaxial densely hairy, adaxial sparsely hairy or glabrate. <b>Inflo</b>rescences: flowers solitary; peduncles plus pedicels stout, 0–2(–4) mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals oblong to lanceolate, 3–5 mm; corolla pale blue, violet, or white, rotate to broadly funnelform, limb 7–12 mm diam. <b>2n</b> = 26 (Argentina).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Oct.
|habitat=Oak woodlands, desert grasslands, plains, savannas, pinelands, chaparral.
|elevation=0–1900 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;N.Mex.;Tenn.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Evolvulus sericeus
|authority=Swartz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Evolvulus macilentus
|basionyms=
|family=Convolvulaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Oct.
|habitat=Oak woodlands, desert grasslands, plains, savannas, pinelands, chaparral.
|elevation=0–1900 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;N.Mex.;Tenn.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr.,
|publication year=1788
|special status=
|source xml=
|genus=Evolvulus
|species=Evolvulus sericeus
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