Ipomoea cairica |
Ipomoea plummerae |
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cairo morning glory, mile-a-minute vine |
Huachuca morningglory, Huachuca Mountain morning-glory, Plummer's morning glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | |||||
Stems | usually twining, sometimes trailing. |
usually ± trailing, sometimes ascending, erect, or twining near tips. |
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Leaf | blades orbiculate to ovate, 30–100 × 30–100 mm overall, palmatisect, lobes 5 (proximal 2 sometimes 2-lobed), lance-elliptic, lanceolate, or lance-ovate, (5–)10–25(–70) × (3–)8–15(–30) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glabrous. |
blades of 2 forms; one form ± orbiculate, palmatisect, lobes (3–)5(–7+), linear to spatulate, 3–30(–50) × (0.5–)1–2.5 mm, base ± truncate; the other form ± cuneate-obovate, proximally cuneate, distally ± incised, 3–5(–7+)-toothed; surfaces glabrous. |
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Peduncles | glabrous; pedicels straight, 10–25 mm. |
glabrous. |
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Flowers | sepals oblong to ovate, 4–6.5(–9) mm, outers slightly shorter than inners, chartaceous, margins scarious, apex obtuse to acute; corolla lavender-blue or white, throat purplish-red, funnelform, 45–60 mm. |
sepals oblong to ovate, outers 5–8 × 2–3 mm, abaxial surface ± muricate or smooth, apex acute to obtuse, mucronate, inners broadly ovate, 7–9(–10) × 3–4 mm, apex acuminate to acute, surfaces glabrous, chartaceous to coriaceous; corolla purple to lavender, funnelform, 25–31 mm, limb 18–22 mm diam. |
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Vperennials | , root globose, tuberlike. |
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2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea cairica |
Ipomoea plummerae |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Oct. | |||||
Habitat | Abandoned plantings, disturbed sites. | |||||
Elevation | -20–200 m. (-100–700 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
AL; CA; FL; LA; Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico (Oaxaca), West Indies, South America]
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sw United States; Mexico; South America
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (2 in the flora). Variety cupulata J. A. McDonald is known in Mexico from Chihuahua, Guerrero, Jalisco, and Sinaloa. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. | ||||
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | ||||
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Synonyms | Convolvulus cairicus | |||||
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Sweet: Hort. Brit., 287. (1826) | A. Gray in A. Gray et al.: Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2, 2(1): 434. (1886) | ||||
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