Ipomoea alba |
Ipomoea nil |
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moon flower, tropical white morning-glory |
ivy morning glory, Japanese morning glory, whiteedge morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Annuals. |
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 cordate, ± orbiculate, ovate, or 3-lobed, 50–150 × 20–140 mm overall, base cordate, surfaces sparsely hirsute to sericeous. |
Peduncles | glabrous. |
hairy, hairs retrorse. |
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-linear, 15–25(–30) mm, herbaceous, proximally narrowly ovate, densely hispid, gradually narrowed to ± straight, hispid to strigose or glabrate distal portion longer than ovate base; corolla usually blue to purplish, sometimes red or white, tube white or yellow inside, funnelform, (20–)30–60+ mm. |
Fruits | 20–30 mm. |
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2n | = 30. |
= 30. |
Ipomoea alba |
Ipomoea nil |
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Phenology | Flowering Sep–May. | Flowering Jul–Dec. |
Habitat | Forest margins, swamps, moist sites. | Abandoned plantings, fields, thickets. |
Elevation | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) | 10–2200 m. (0–7200 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; KY; LA; MD; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Asia]
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Discussion | Reports of Ipomoea nil from California are based on misidentified material of I. hederacea. (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 nil, Pharbitis hederacea, P. nil |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 161. (1753) | (Linnaeus) Roth: Catal. Bot. 1: 36. (1797) |
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