Ipomoea alba |
Ipomoea wrightii |
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moon flower, tropical white morning-glory |
palmleaf morningglory, Wright's morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Annuals. |
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 ± pentagonal, 30–80 × 20–80 mm overall, palmatisect, lobes 5, lance-linear to lanceolate, (21–)35–50(–80) × (5–)10–15(–20) mm, apex acute, surfaces glabrous. |
Peduncles | glabrous. |
usually spiraled, 50–100 mm, 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 ovate, 5–7 mm, chartaceous or coriaceous, apex obtuse to rounded, abaxial surface glabrous; corolla red, rosy, throat red-violet, funnelform, 18–30 mm. |
Fruits | 20–30 mm. |
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2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea alba |
Ipomoea wrightii |
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Phenology | Flowering Sep–May. | Flowering Jul–Oct. |
Habitat | Forest margins, swamps, moist sites. | Disturbed sites, fields, marshy sites. |
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; FL; GA; LA; MS; OK; TN; TX; Asia [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America (Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru), Africa, Australia]
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Discussion | Ipomoea wrightii may be spread as a contaminant in seeds. The names Ipomoea heptaphylla (Roxburg) Voigt and I. pulchella Roth have been misapplied to plants of I. wrightii. (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 | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 161. (1753) | A. Gray in A. Gray et al.: Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2(1): 213. (1878) |
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