Beach morning glory is a low, creeping perennial of coastal sand, with pink, trumpet-shaped flowers held above shiny, kidney-shaped leaves. In the US it grows on West Coast beaches. It's also called sea bindweed.
Appearance
- Growth form
- Lies flat on the sand and does not twine. Plants are only about 3–4 in (8–10 cm) tall, with fleshy stems 8–20 in (20–50 cm) long spreading from an underground stem.
- Leaves
- Smooth, fleshy, kidney-shaped leaves that are wider than long, with a rounded tip.
- Flowers
- Funnel-shaped flowers about 1–2 in (3–5 cm) across, pink to lavender with a white throat, on stalks 1–3 in (2.5–7.5 cm) long.
- Flowering time
- In the Pacific Northwest, it blooms from spring into late summer.
Look-alikes
Where it lives
- Typical habitats
- Coastal beaches
- Sand dunes
- Range
- Native along the West Coast of North America, from Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands) in British Columbia south through Washington and Oregon to California. It also grows on temperate coasts around the world.
- Preferred conditions
- Tolerates salt spray, drought, and repeated burial by sand. On dunes it is often found behind the foredunes, sometimes well inland of them.
Growing it
- Propagation
- Spreads by underground stems () through the sand.
Conservation
- IUCN Red List
- NENot EvaluatedNot yet assessed
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