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|accepted_name=Convolvulus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 153. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Bindweed
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Convolvulus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Convolvulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Convolvulus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin convolvo, to entwine, alluding to twining habit of most species
|volume=Volume 14
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials [shrubs], sometimes rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> usually decumbent to procumbent, sometimes ascending, erect, or trailing, seldom twining-climbing, glabrous or hairy, hairs not branched, glandular, or stellate. <b>Leaves</b> usually petiolate, rarely sessile; blade deltate-ovate, oblong, oblanceolate, oblong-elliptic, elliptic, linear, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, ovate-deltate, triangular-lanceolate, or deltate, 10–100 mm, surfaces glabrous or hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b>: flowers 2–5+ per peduncle [heads] or solitary; pedicels 10–30 mm; bracts scalelike, lanceolate, lance-linear, elliptic, linear, obovate, ovate, spatulate, or subulate. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals elliptic, oblong, oblong-ovate, obovate, ovate, or suborbiculate, 3–12 mm; corolla usually pink or white, sometimes tinged or striped with blue or pink, center sometimes purplish to reddish, campanulate to ± rotate, (4–)12–30 mm, limb 5-angled to 5-lobed; ovary 2-locular; style 1; stigmas or stigma lobes 2, cylindric, linear, or spatulate, apices acute. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, ± globose, ovoid, or conic-ovoid, dehiscence valvate. <b>Seeds</b> 1–4, trigonous or rounded, glabrous, surfaces granulate, papillulate, smooth, or tuberculate. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;South America;Eurasia;Africa;Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands);Australia;introduced in Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
|discussion=<p>Species 190 (4 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Convolvulus althaeoides Linnaeus (collected in California in 1941, 1942, and 1950), C. cneorum Linnaeus, C. sabatius Viviani var. mauritanicus (Bossier) Sa’ad (cultivated as C. mauritanicus Boissier), and C. tricolor Linnaeus are widely cultivated; none of them is known to be established or recurrent in the flora area.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Annuals; corollas 4–6 mm, limb 5-lobed.
|[[Convolvulus simulans|Convolvulus simulans]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Perennials; corollas 11–30 mm, limb 5-angled.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Sepals 3–4.5 mm.
|[[Convolvulus arvensis|Convolvulus arvensis]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Sepals 6–12 mm.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Flowers 1(–3) per peduncle; sepals oblong to ovate, 6–12 mm; corollas (15–)25–30 mm.
|[[Convolvulus equitans|Convolvulus equitans]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Flowers (1–)3–5+ per peduncle; sepals ± elliptic, 6–7 mm; corollas 11–15(–18) mm.
|[[Convolvulus crenatifolius|Convolvulus crenatifolius]]
|}
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name=Convolvulus
|author=Daniel F. Austin†
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Convolvulaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;South America;Eurasia;Africa;Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands);Australia;introduced in Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
|source xml=
|genus=Convolvulus
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