Roadside wood-rose

Convolvulus cissoides Lamarck in J. Lamarck and J. Poiret, Tabl. Encycl. 1: 462. 1793

Stems hairy, hairs glandular and setaceous. Leaf blades ± orbiculate to pentagonal, palmately compound, 15–50 × 5–50 mm, (3–)5(–7)-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, or ovate-oblong, margins usually dentate, rarely entire, surfaces hairy, hairs glandular and setaceous. Inflorescences 3–9-flowered cymes or flowers solitary. Flowers: sepals rhombic, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 10–18 mm, apex acuminate, abaxial surface hairy, hairs glandular and setaceous; corolla usually cream or white, rarely rose, 20–25 mm.

Flowering May–Dec. Abandoned plantings, fields, lots; 0–10 m; Fla.; Mexico; Central America; South America; introduced in Old World subtropics and tropics.