Ipomoea alba |
Ipomoea pandurata |
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moon flower, tropical white morning-glory |
bigroot morningglory, man-of-the-earth, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato, wild sweet potato morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials, root relatively large. |
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, cordate-ovate, or pandurate, 30–100 × 20–90 mm, base cordate, surfaces glabrous or abaxial hairy. |
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 elliptic-oblong, 12–22 mm, outers sometimes shorter than inners, coriaceous, surfaces glabrous; corolla white, throat lavender or purple-red inside, funnelform, 50–80 mm. |
Fruits | 20–30 mm. |
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2n | = 30. |
= 30. |
Ipomoea alba |
Ipomoea pandurata |
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Phenology | Flowering Sep–May. | Flowering Jun–Sep. |
Habitat | Forest margins, swamps, moist sites. | Abandoned plantings, fields, prairies. |
Elevation | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) | 0–600 m. (0–2000 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; AR; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MI; MO; MS; NC; NE; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV; ON
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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 panduratus |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 161. (1753) | (Linnaeus) G. Meyer: Prim. Fl. Esseq., 100. (1818) |
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