Paiute False Bindweed
Calystegia longipes
Photographed along Rackensack Wash, New River Mountains, Maricopa Co., Arizona. May 2008.
Photographed along Rackensack Wash, New River Mountains, Maricopa Co., Arizona. May 2008.
VINE: Weakly twinning vine sometimes scrambling up and over shrubs
reaching several meters in
length. Occasionally growing as a half-meter tall, stand-alone, hemispheric
shrub.
FLOWERS: Pale white or cream tinged with pink. In flower, this is a
showy, attractive plant. Blooms late spring (May) through Oct.
LEAVES: Leaves are alternate on stems and have a pair of narrow lobes
near base.
RANGE: Fairly common in the Interior Chaparral habitats of Arizona and
just barely ranging to lower elevations in Upland Sonoran Desert.
FRUIT: Dry four-seeded capsules subtended by enlarged sepals.
UNARMED.