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camote, sweet potato, wild sweet potato
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canyon morning-glory
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| Perennials, root relatively large, tuberlike. |
Annuals. |
± trailing, rarely twining. |
twining. |
blades cordate, broadly ovate, or 5–7-lobed, 50–100+ × 40–100 mm overall, base cordate, surfaces glabrous or hairy. |
blades orbiculate-ovate, 30–80 × 15–85 mm overall, base cordate, palmatisect, incised nearly to petiole tip, lobes (3–)5–7, ± lanceolate or rhombic, surfaces glabrous, sometimes gland-dotted. |
glabrous or hairy, hairs appressed. |
glabrous. |
sepals lanceolate to oblong, 8–15 mm, chartaceous; corolla usually lavender, pink, or purplish, sometimes white, throat usually darker inside, funnelform, (30–)40–70 mm. |
sepals ± lance-linear, 10–12 × 1–2 mm, herbaceous, proximally slightly dilated relative to narrowed distal portion, abaxial surface hispid-pilose; corolla blue, red-purple, or white, funnelform, 16–20(–25) mm, limb 18–20 mm diam. |
glabrous. |
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= 60, 84, 90. |
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| Flowering year-round. |
Flowering Jul–Dec. |
| Abandoned plantings, thickets. |
Chaparral, desert scrub. |
| 0–200+ m. (0–700+ ft.) |
800–2500 m. (2600–8200 ft.) |
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FL; KS; LA; MS; NC; NY; PA; SC; TX; UT; VA; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Asia, Africa]
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico
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Reports of Ipomoea batatas from northern parts of the flora area appear to be based on ephemerals. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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| FNA vol. 14. |
FNA vol. 14. |
| Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
I. alba, I. amnicola, I. aquatica, I. asarifolia, I. barbatisepala, 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. 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 |
| Convolvulus batatas |
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| (Linnaeus) Lamarck in J. Lamarck and J. Poiret: Tabl. Encycl. 1: 465. (1793) |
A. Gray in A. Gray et al.: Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2(1): 212. (1878) |
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