[2] It is a perennial vine which grows in beach sand and other coastal habitats in temperate regions across the world.

[4] The plant bears trailing,[1] fleshy stems, kidney-shaped leaves, and creamy-white flower buds and attractive morning glory-like flowers with corollas delicate pink to vivid lavender.

In the United Kingdom it is widespread on the sandy coasts of England and Wales, less common in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

[5] In the southern hemisphere Calystegia soldanella can be found in coastal areas of Australia, New Zealand, southern South America and South Africa.

[6] In 1973, botanical illustrator Nancy Adams collected this species on the south coast of Wellington, New Zealand and it was still abundant there 51 years later.