Ipomoea alba |
Ipomoea lindheimeri |
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moon flower, tropical white morning-glory |
blue morningglory, Lindheimer's morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials. |
Stems | twining, usually prickly, sometimes rooting at nodes. |
twining. |
Leaf | blades broadly ovate to triangular or 3–5-lobed, 50–150 × 50–150 mm, base cordate, surfaces usually glabrous, rarely hairy. |
blades broadly ovate to reniform, 50–60 × 50–80 mm overall, usually 3–5(–7)-lobed, lobes ± lanceolate, base cordate, surfaces ± hirsute or sericeous. |
Peduncles | glabrous. |
hairy, hairs retrorse, shaggy. |
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 lanceolate to lance-ovate, 18–30 × 3–5(–9) mm, herbaceous, base ± dilated, abaxial surface ± hispid; corolla blue to violet, funnelform, 55–90 mm, limb 60–70 mm diam. |
Fruits | 20–30 mm. |
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2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea alba |
Ipomoea lindheimeri |
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Phenology | Flowering Sep–May. | Flowering Apr–Nov. |
Habitat | Forest margins, swamps, moist sites. | Oak woodlands, rocky sites, stream bottoms. |
Elevation | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) | 200–2300 m. (700–7500 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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NM; TX; Mexico
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Calonyction aculeatum, Convolvulus aculeatus | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 161. (1753) | A. Gray in A. Gray et al.: Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2(1): 210. (1878) |
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