Distribution:  Worldwide, but with greatest diversity in the tropics. We have 11 genera and 58 species in the Texas flora.

Floral structure:

Significant features:  Classic Asteridae in terms of general floral structure with actinomorphy and hypogyny placing it in the genral area of the Solanales and the tendency toward funnelform, plicate corollas marking this family.  Other contrasting characters (within the Solanales context) include latex production in many taxa, separate sepals that are often closely subtended by bracts, and the bicarpellate gynoecium often contains a false septum producing 4 locules that often carry fewer ovules/seeds that other families of the order.

plant	'contorted' bud	plicate corolla	epipetaly

Other taxa: (see also the University of Hawaii)
 

Dichondra carolinensis - a weed of local lawns	Convolvulus equitans - from the Edwards Plateau	Ipomoea cordatotriloba - a local weed

More information on the Convolvulaceae