Convolvulus angustissimus subsp angustissimus flower9 QNR (15668087978)

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Description: Native, warm season, perennial herb with trailing and twining branches. Stems are moderately to densely hairy in younger parts, becoming sparser with age. Leaves are variable in shape from base to tip of stem; basal leaves are oblong to ovate, with crenate to shallowly lobed margins and truncate to cordate bases; upper leaves are moderately hairy to nearly hairless, ovate to triangular-ovate in outline, 1–6.5 cm long, with 3–5-lobed margins, with narrow basal lobes that are entire or bifid. Flowers are usually solitary in the leaf axils. Corollas are funnel-shaped, 7–20 mm long, 7–20 mm diam, and pink with a paler throat, rarely white. Fruit are globose capsules 4–8 mm long. Flowering is from early spring to mid-autumn. Found mainly on loamy or clay soils in grassy eucalypt woodlands or forests. These plants were growing in the Queanbeyan Nature Reserve. Date: 8 November 2014, 12:28. Source: Convolvulus angustissimus subsp angustissimus flower9 QNR. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.