Calystegia occidentalis

Bush morning glory

Family: Convolvulaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Bush morning glory is a California native perennial found in dry, rocky areas of the inner Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada foothills at elevations of 100 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces white to creamy yellow flowers 20 to 48 millimeters long with delicate, trumpet-like petals. Growing with decumbent to strongly climbing stems that are puberulent and emerging from a woody base, it spreads in loose, sprawling formations. Its leaves have distinctive blades 1.5 to 4 centimeters long with rounded lobes and a softly rounded or squared sinus between leaf segments. The plant's linear bracts, 5 to 12 millimeters long, partially surround the flower's green sepals which measure 9 to 15 millimeters in length.

California counties: Alameda, Fresno, Plumas, San Bernardino, Del Norte, Tuolumne, Sonoma, Napa, San Mateo, Butte, San Diego, Tulare, Madera, Marin, Stanislaus, Placer, Trinity, Siskiyou, Shasta, El Dorado, Sutter, Mariposa, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, Tehama, Humboldt, Nevada, Solano, Sierra, Yolo, Mendocino, Colusa, Lake, Kern, Amador, Ventura, Los Angeles

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.