Ipomoea alba |
Ipomoea indica |
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moon flower, tropical white morning-glory |
blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials. |
Stems | twining, usually prickly, sometimes rooting at nodes. |
usually twining, sometimes trailing. |
Leaf | blades broadly ovate to triangular or 3–5-lobed, 50–150 × 50–150 mm, base cordate, surfaces usually glabrous, rarely hairy. |
blades cordate, rounded-ovate, or 3–5(–7)-lobed, 30–140 × 30–140 mm, base cordate to sagittate, surfaces glabrous or ± pilose. |
Peduncles | glabrous. |
glabrate or sparsely hairy, hairs antrorse to ± appressed. |
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 lance-ovate, 14–21 mm, herbaceous, apex ± acuminate, surfaces glabrous or abaxial sparsely hairy, hairs appressed; corolla usually blue to purple, rarely white, throat and tube white, funnelform, 50–70 mm. |
Fruits | 20–30 mm. |
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2n | = 30. |
= 30. |
Ipomoea alba |
Ipomoea indica |
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Phenology | Flowering Sep–May. | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | Forest margins, swamps, moist sites. | Roadsides, thickets. |
Elevation | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) | 0–1600 m. (0–5200 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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AL; CA; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; PA; SC; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in Asia]
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Discussion | In the flora area, Ipomoea indica rarely produces seeds and rarely survives winters. It is probably native in southern Florida. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Calonyction aculeatum, Convolvulus aculeatus | Convolvulus indicus, I. mutabilis, Pharbitis cathartica |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 161. (1753) | (Burman) Merrill: Interpr. Herb. Amboin., 445. (1917) |
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