Convolvulus betonicifoliusMill.

WFO wfo-0001298810 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Convolvulus betonicifolius, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. a Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-27 / obs. 123483172
Convolvulus betonicifolius, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. b Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123483259
Convolvulus betonicifolius, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. c Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123483324
Convolvulus betonicifolius, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. d Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123483407
Convolvulus betonicifolius, photographed by Vasileia Sef
fig. e Vasileia Sef, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199923523
Convolvulus betonicifolius, photographed by Екатерина Кропочева
fig. f Екатерина Кропочева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78661306
Convolvulus betonicifolius, photographed by Vasileia Sef
fig. g Vasileia Sef, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199923531
Convolvulus betonicifolius, photographed by Екатерина Кропочева
fig. h Екатерина Кропочева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78661327

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Convolvulus betonicifolius is native: Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Türkiye-in-Europe CyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaGreeceKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.Türkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Convolvulus betonicifolius, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Greece GRC
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE

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 42 in flower of 44 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Convolvulus betonicifolius 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. 42 of 44 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 10 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.

  • Calystegia paradoxa Pursh
  • Convolvulus aleppensis Sa'ad
  • Convolvulus amoenus K.Koch
  • Convolvulus armenus Boiss. & Kotschy ex Boiss.
  • Convolvulus atriplicifolius Poir.
  • Convolvulus batataefolius Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Boiss.
  • Convolvulus betonicifolius subsp. peduncularis (Boiss.) Parris
  • Convolvulus hirsutus M.Bieb.
  • Convolvulus peduncularis Boiss.
  • Convolvulus sibthorpii Roem. & Schult.

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. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.