Convolvulaceae
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Convolvulaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Family Description - Fls perfect, hypogynous, sympetalous, 5-merous; sep in most genera distinct or connate only at the base, often unequal; cor regular, commonly funnelform, scarcely to evidently lobed, commonly induplicate-valvate and often also convolute in bud, or merely convolute when more strongly lobed; stamens as many as and alternate with the lobes or connate members of the cor, attached toward the base of the cor-tube, the filaments often unequal; ovary superior, with 2(–5) carpels and locules and with a terminal, simple or often deeply cleft style or distinct styles, seldom (as in Dichondra) the ovary deeply bilobed with the segments united mainly by the base of the deeply cleft gynobasic style; ovules mostly 2 per carpel, basal or basal-axile, erect, apotropous, the micropyle directed downward and outward; fr usually capsular, seldom indehiscent; embryo large, with 2 plicate, often bifid cotyledons, embedded in the hard, often cartilaginous endosperm; mostly (incl. all our spp.) herbs, commonly twining and climbing or prostrate, seldom erect or even arborescent shrubs, with alternate, simple, exstipulate lvs; fls often showy, commonly subtended by a pair of bracts, these sometimes enlarged and forming an involucre. 50/1500, nearly cosmop.
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Common Names
The morning-glory family