Ipomoea alba |
Ipomoea asarifolia |
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moon flower, tropical white morning-glory |
ginger-leaf morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials. |
Stems | twining, usually prickly, sometimes rooting at nodes. |
repent, rooting at nodes. |
Leaf | blades broadly ovate to triangular or 3–5-lobed, 50–150 × 50–150 mm, base cordate, surfaces usually glabrous, rarely hairy. |
blades cordate to ± orbiculate, 30–120 × 30–120 mm, base cordate, apex acute to rounded, surfaces glabrous. |
Peduncles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Flowers | nocturnal; sepals ovate, 7–15 mm, ± coriaceous, apex acute, outers each with midrib extending as ± corniform appendage; corolla white, throat green-banded inside, salverform, 70–150 mm. |
sepals chartaceous to coriaceous, outers elliptic, 5–9 mm, apex obtuse, inners elliptic or oblong, 10–15 mm, apex obtuse; corolla usually red, rarely white, funnelform, 50–80 mm. |
Fruits | 20–30 mm. |
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2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea alba |
Ipomoea asarifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering Sep–May. | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | Forest margins, swamps, moist sites. | Beaches, moist or swampy sites. |
Elevation | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) |
Distribution |
FL; LA; SC; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Asia]
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FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies (Jamaica) [Introduced in North America] |
Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Calonyction aculeatum, Convolvulus aculeatus | Convolvulus asarifolius |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 161. (1753) | (Desrousseaux) Roemer & Schultes in J. J. Roemer et al.: Syst. Veg. 4: 251. (1819) |
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