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moon flower, tropical white morning-glory
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pitted morningglory, small white morning glory, white morning-glory, whitestar
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| Perennials. |
Annuals. |
twining, usually prickly, sometimes rooting at nodes. |
twining. |
blades broadly ovate to triangular or 3–5-lobed, 50–150 × 50–150 mm, base cordate, surfaces usually glabrous, rarely hairy. |
blades cordate-ovate, deltate-ovate, ovate, or 3(–5)-lobed, 30–80 × 20–70 mm, base ± cordate, basal lobes rounded or pointed, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hairy. |
glabrous. |
glabrous, sometimes muricate. |
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 elliptic-oblong, lanceolate, or lance-ovate, (8–)11–14 mm, chartaceous or coriaceous, margins ciliate, apex acuminate, surfaces glabrous; corolla usually white, limb sometimes pink tinged, funnelform, 15–20(–25) mm. |
20–30 mm. |
10–13 mm diam. 2n = 30. |
= 30. |
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| Flowering Sep–May. |
Flowering Apr–Oct. |
| Forest margins, swamps, moist sites. |
Disturbed sites, ditches, fields. |
| 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) |
0–300 m. (0–1000 ft.) |
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FL; LA; SC; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Asia]
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AL; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV
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Plants of Ipomoea lacunosa are sometimes confused with plants of I. × leucantha, which are derived from hybridization between I. lacunosa and I. cordatotriloba (D. F. Austin and W. E. Abel 1981). Seeds of Ipomoea lacunosa are 5–6 mm and seeds of I. × leucantha are 3.2–4 mm. Reports of Ipomoea lacunosa for Ontario, California, and New York are apparently based on waifs. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
| FNA vol. 14. |
FNA vol. 14. |
| Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
I. amnicola, I. aquatica, I. asarifolia, I. barbatisepala, I. batatas, I. cairica, I. capillacea, I. cardiophylla, I. carnea, I. coccinea, I. cordatotriloba, I. costellata, I. cristulata, I. dumetorum, I. hederacea, I. hederifolia, I. imperati, I. indica, I. lacunosa, I. leptophylla, I. lindheimeri, I. longifolia, I. macrorhiza, I. microdactyla, I. muricata, I. nil, I. pandurata, I. pes-caprae, I. plummerae, I. pubescens, I. purpurea, I. quamoclit, I. rupicola, I. sagittata, I. setosa, I. shumardiana, I. sloteri, I. tenuiloba, I. tenuissima, I. ternifolia, I. thurberi, I. tricolor, I. triloba, I. violacea, I. wrightii, I. ×leucantha |
I. alba, I. amnicola, I. aquatica, I. asarifolia, I. barbatisepala, I. batatas, I. cairica, I. capillacea, I. cardiophylla, I. carnea, I. coccinea, I. cordatotriloba, I. costellata, I. cristulata, I. dumetorum, I. hederacea, I. hederifolia, I. imperati, I. indica, I. leptophylla, I. lindheimeri, I. longifolia, I. macrorhiza, I. microdactyla, I. muricata, I. nil, I. pandurata, I. pes-caprae, I. plummerae, I. pubescens, I. purpurea, I. quamoclit, I. rupicola, I. sagittata, I. setosa, I. shumardiana, I. sloteri, I. tenuiloba, I. tenuissima, I. ternifolia, I. thurberi, I. tricolor, I. triloba, I. violacea, I. wrightii, I. ×leucantha |
| Calonyction aculeatum, Convolvulus aculeatus |
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| Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 161. (1753) |
Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 161. (1753) |
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