Evolvulus (Evolvulus glomeratus ‘Hawaiian Blue Eyes’)

Features and Characteristics

Evolvulus glomeratus is a non-vining morning glory-like tender perennial with trailing stems that is native to Brazil. If planted in the ground as a bedding plant, it typically forms sprawling foliage mounds to 9-18” tall. Trailing stems tend to grow somewhat horizontally to downward when planted in baskets or containers. Flowers usually close up at night and on cloudy days. Sometimes listed synonymous with E. pilosus, which adds considerable taxonomic confusion since E. pilosus is also sometimes listed as being synonymous with E. nuttallianus, a small-flowered native North American species that is winter hardy to USDA Zone

Genus name comes from the Latin word evolvo meaning to untwist or unravel as this convolvulus family genus does not twine.

Specific epithet means clustered into more or less rounded heads.

‘Hawaiian Blue Eyes’ is a popular cultivar that features slightly bell-shaped, blue morning glories (to 1” diameter) that freely bloom throughout the growing season on stems clad with oblanceolate, hairy, silvery-green leaves (to 1” long).