Ipomoea cairica |
Ipomoea quamoclit |
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cairo morning glory, mile-a-minute vine |
cypress vine, cypress-vine morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Annuals. |
Stems | usually twining, sometimes trailing. |
twining. |
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 ± elliptic to oblong, 10–90 × 5–45 mm overall, pinnatisect, base ± truncate, lobes 19–41+, filiform to linear, surfaces glabrous. |
Peduncles | glabrous; pedicels straight, 10–25 mm. |
glabrous. |
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. |
diurnal; sepals elliptic to oblong, 4–8 mm, chartaceous to coriaceous, apex mucronate, surfaces glabrous; corolla usually red, sometimes white (in cultivars), salverform, 20–30 mm. |
2n | = 30. |
= 30. |
Ipomoea cairica |
Ipomoea quamoclit |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Oct. | Flowering Jun–Oct. |
Habitat | Abandoned plantings, disturbed sites. | Abandoned plantings, forest edges, thickets. |
Elevation | -20–200 m. (-100–700 ft.) | 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; CA; FL; LA; Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico (Oaxaca), West Indies, South America]
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AL; AR; DC; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NY; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; ON; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Eurasia; Africa
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Discussion | Reports for Ipomoea quamoclit from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia may be from horticultural plantings. A report from California is from a casual garden weed; it is not naturalized there. (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 | Convolvulus cairicus | |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Sweet: Hort. Brit., 287. (1826) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 159. (1753) |
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