Convolvulus cantabricaL. - Dwarf Morning Glory
Scientific Description:
Woody-based perennial, stems prostrate, erect or ascending, occasionally divaricately branching, 10−45 cm, ± hirsute with adpressed or spreading hairs. Lower leaves oblong-spathulate, 2−4 × 0.7−1.5 cm, with petiole 2 cm or longer; upper sessile, oblanceolate to linear, adpressed-hairy with some spreading hairs. Flowers terminal and axillary in 1−4-flowered long-peduncled (usually) loose cymes. Outer sepals spreading-hairy, ovate-oblanceolate, 6−8 × 4 mm, acuminate. Corolla pink, very rarely white, 2−2.5 cm. Ovary hairy.
Flowering time: April−August.
Habitat: Macchie, edge of Pinus brutia L. woods, rocky and turfy slopes, chalky, clay and shale banks, roadsides, s.l.−1700 m.
Reference:
Parris BS (1978). Convolvulus cantabrica L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 6: 206.
Public Description:
Convolvulus cantabrica, common name “dwarf morning glory”, is native to southern Europe and widespread in the Mediterranean coasts. It is a perennial plant with wide funnel-shaped pink or completely white flowers and can reach up to 50 cm in length. It prefers rocky places, sunny slopes, dry grassland and scrublands with calcareous soil and can be seen in flower between April and August.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolvulus_cantabrica, Accessed date: 02.02.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=6360/, Accessed date: 02.02.2016.
Aykurt C (2012). Convolvulus L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 376–378.