Vascular Plant Herbarium

Vascular Plant Database Family Results

Category: Dicots
Family Name: Convolvulaceae

Calystegia - [maps | photos]

• Calystegia catesbeiana Pursh
  Common Name: Catesby's false bindweed

• Calystegia sepium (L.) R. Br.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative
  Common Name: hedge false bindweed

• Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
  Common Name: shortstalk false bindweed

• Calystegia spithamaea (L.) Pursh
  Common Name: low false bindweed

Convolvulus - [maps | photos]

• Convolvulus arvensis * L.
  Common Name: field bindweed

Cuscuta - [maps | photos]

• Cuscuta compacta Juss. ex Choisy
  Common Name: compact dodder

• Cuscuta coryli Engelm.

• Cuscuta cuspidata Engelm.
  Common Name: cusp dodder

• Cuscuta glomerata Choisy
  Common Name: rope dodder

• Cuscuta gronovii Willd. ex Schult.
  Common Name: scaldweed

• Cuscuta indecora Choisy
  Common Name: bigseed alfalfa dodder

• Cuscuta pentagona Engelm.
  Common Name: fiveangled dodder
  Synonyms:
  

         • Cuscuta campestris Yuncker

• Cuscuta rostrata Shuttlew. ex Engelm. & A. Gray
  Common Name: beaked dodder

Dichondra - [maps | photos]

• Dichondra carolinensis * Michx.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Wetland -
  Common Name: Carolina ponys foot, ponysfoot
  Synonyms:
  

         • Dichondra repens J.R. Forst. var. carolinensis (Michx.) Choisy

         • Dichondra repens J.R. Forst. var. carolinensis (Michx.) Choisy

Evolvulus - [maps | photos]

• Evolvulus nuttallianus Schult. (TN Special Concern)
  Common Name: shaggy dwarf morning-glory
  Synonyms:
  

         • Evolvulus pilosus Nutt.

Ipomoea - [maps | photos]

• Ipomoea coccinea L.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative
  Common Name: redstar
  Synonyms:
  

         • Quamoclit coccinea (L.) Moench

• Ipomoea cordatotriloba Dennst.
  Common Name: tievine

• Ipomoea hederacea * Jacq.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative -
  Common Name: ivyleaf morning glory

• Ipomoea lacunosa L.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative +
  Common Name: whitestar

• Ipomoea pandurata (L.) G. Mey.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Upland
  Common Name: man of the earth

• Ipomoea purpurea * (L.) Roth
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Upland
  Common Name: tall morning glory

• Ipomoea quamoclit * L.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Upland +
  Common Name: cypressvine

• Ipomoea wrightii * A. Gray
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Wetland -
  Common Name: Wright's morning glory

Jacquemontia - [maps | photos]

• Jacquemontia tamnifolia * (L.) Griseb.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Upland -
  Common Name: hairy cluster vine

Stylisma - [maps | photos]

• Stylisma humistrata (Walter) Chapm. (TN Threatened)
  Common Name: southern dawnflower
  Synonyms:
  

         • Bonamia humistrata (Walt.) A. Gray

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*Non-native taxon known to be naturalized in Tennessee

All names & statuses follow the Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee (2015).
Click here for a description of rare, threatened, or endangered (RTE) status & National Wetland Indicator (NWI) status.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Dr. Jessica M. Budke or Margaret Oliver.