Convolvulus simulans

Small-flowered morning-glory

Family: Convolvulaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.2

Small-flowered morning-glory is a California native annual found in southern Sierra Nevada foothills, San Joaquin Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, southern Coast Ranges, southern California, Channel Islands, western Transverse Ranges, and Peninsular Ranges in clay substrates, coastal sage scrub, and annual grasslands at elevations of 30 to 875 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces pale pink to pale blue flowers in small bell-shaped blooms approximately 0.6 centimeters long. Growing with tufted, diffusely branched stems 10 to 40 centimeters tall, it spreads in delicate clusters across its habitat. Its entire leaves are oblanceolate, less than 6 centimeters long, and sessile, narrowing toward the base. The fruit is approximately 7 millimeters long with short, sharply nodding peduncles.

Habitat: Clay substrates, occasionally serpentine, annual grassland, coastal-sage scrub, chaparral

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: 30-875 m

Bioregions: s SNF, SnJV/SCoRI, SnFrB, s SCoRO, SCo, ChI, WTR, PR

California counties: Los Angeles, Kern, San Benito, Fresno, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Riverside, Orange, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Tulare, Stanislaus, San Bernardino, Contra Costa, San Joaquin

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