Plant: Annual twining vine; from slender taproots; stems erect at first, in age trailing or twining at tips Leaves: sessile or on petioles 1-3 cm long, deeply palmately dissected, the segments 5-9, linear, linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, 7-25 mm long INFLORESCENCE: of mostly solitary flowers on peduncles 1-3(-7) cm long; bracts subulate, to 1 mm long Flowers: on pedicels 15-25 mm long, erect in fruit; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, mucronulate, scarious-margined, the outer sepals 3-5 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, the inner sepals 4-6 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, at least the inner sepals slightly rugose along the veins; corollas pale lavender to pink, 1-1.2 cm long; stamens 3-5 mm long, with white trichomes along filaments, the anthers 1 mm long; ovary ovoid, 1 mm long, 2-locular, cream, glabrous; styles 4 mm long, green Fruit: FRUITS tan, globose to ellipsoid-globose, 4-5 mm wide, the caducous apiculum 1-2 mm long. SEEDS 3-4, 3 mm long, ovoid, black, glabrous Misc: Rocky sites in chaparral, oak woodland and ponderosa pine zones; 1000-2150 m (3200-7000 ft); Jul-Oct Notes: Leaves divided into 5-9 narrow linear-oblanceolate segments.Capsule is tan in color.Corolla funnelform. Stems twining or spreading-ascending. References: Austin, Daniel F. 1998. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Convolvulaceae 30(2): 61. Kearney & Peebles; Arizona Flora. ASU specimans