Calystegia hederacea × Calystegia pubescens ("Ainokohirugao")

Japanese name: アイノコヒルガオ
Scientific name: Calystegia hederacea × Calystegia pubescens

[Overview]
A climbing perennial found in fields and grasslands.
It is a hybrid of Hirugao and Ko-hirugao, and its form is intermediate between the two.
The vine twines around other objects.
The leaves are alternate, halberd-shaped to arrowhead-shaped, with well-developed lateral lobes at the base that spread outward.
The flowers are solitary in the leaf axils, and the flower stalks have no wings.
The corolla is pale pink and pentagonal funnel-shaped.
The bracts are large and triangular-ovate.

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