Common name:
Seashore false bindweed
Family:
Scientific name:
Calystegia soldanella
Main flower color:
Range:
Scattered areas along the coasts of England, Wales and southwest Scotland
Height:
Up to 10 cm - a creeper, growing along the ground
Habitat:
Sand dunes
Flowers:
Trumpet-shaped, up to 40 mm in diameter; pink, with five thick, white, radiating stripes, yellowish at the base. Underneath are five appressed sepals, and a pair of similar-looking, but slightly shorter bracts. Flowers are attached by slender, hairless stalks, often partly buried beneath the sand
Leaves:
Kidney-shaped, hairless, fleshy, with lighter-coloured, palmate veins
Season:
June to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
