Convolvulus althaeoidesL.

mallow bindweed

WFO wfo-0001297551 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Convolvulus althaeoides, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. a Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-09 / obs. 196446418
Convolvulus althaeoides, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. b Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196193411
Convolvulus althaeoides, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. c Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195249213
Convolvulus althaeoides, photographed by Vasileia Sef
fig. d Vasileia Sef, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194715778
Convolvulus althaeoides, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. e Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194702786
Convolvulus althaeoides, photographed by Vasileia Sef
fig. f Vasileia Sef, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193604219
Convolvulus althaeoides, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. g Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203152159
Convolvulus althaeoides, photographed by Vasileia Sef
fig. h Vasileia Sef, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190341573

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Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Convolvulus althaeoides is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Chad, Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaChadEgyptLibyaMaliMauritaniaMoroccoTunisiaWestern SaharaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineSinaiTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalRomaniaSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe Canary Is.MadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Convolvulus althaeoides, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Chad CHA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 3,422 in flower of 3,689 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Convolvulus althaeoides observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 3,422 of 3,689 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Convolvulus althaeoides f. austrovalentinus O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Convolvulus althaeoides subsp. elegantissimus (Mill.) Quézel & Santa
  • Convolvulus argyraeus DC.
  • Convolvulus argyrophyllus Hoffmanns.
  • Convolvulus bryoniifolius Sims
  • Convolvulus elegantissimus Mill.
  • Convolvulus italicus Roem. & Schult.
  • Convolvulus tenuissimus Sm.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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