Flora of North America species comparison

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Ipomoea capillacea

Ipomoea aquatica

purple morning-glory

swamp morning-glory, water-spinach
Habit Perennials. Perennials.
Stems

usually ascending to erect, sometimes trailing.

usually repent, rooting at nodes, sometimes floating, rarely twining.
Leaf

blades palmatisect, lobes 5–9, filiform to linear, (3–)5–15(–25) × 0.2–1 mm.

blades ± hastate to lanceolate, 40–120 × 20–60 mm, base ± cordate or hastate to truncate, terminal lobe broadly to narrowly triangular or lanceolate, surfaces glabrescent.
Peduncles

glabrous.

glabrous.
Flowers

sepals elliptic, oblong, or ovate, 5–6 × 2–3 mm, chartaceous or coriaceous, abaxial surface muricate or smooth;

corolla lavender to red-purple, funnelform, 30–40 mm, limb 20–25 mm diam.

sepals elliptic-ovate to oblong-ovate, 6–8 mm, chartaceous or coriaceous, apex acute or obtuse, mucronulate;

corolla usually purple, rarely white, funnelform, 40–50 mm.
2n

= 30.

Ipomoea capillacea

Ipomoea aquatica
Phenology Flowering Jul–Sep. Flowering year-round.
Habitat Oak woodlands, plains, pon­derosa pine zones. Abandoned plantings, wet sites.
Elevation 1500–2500 m. (4900–8200 ft.) 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America
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from FNA
CA; FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; Asia; Africa; Australia [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion

The report of Ipomoea capillacea from Alabama (J. T. Kartesz and C. A. Meacham 1999) was probably based on a specimen of I. muricata.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 14. FNA vol. 14.
Parent taxa Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea
Sibling taxa
I. alba, I. amnicola, I. aquatica, I. asarifolia, I. barbatisepala, I. batatas, I. cairica, 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. asarifolia, I. barbatisepala, 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
Synonyms Convolvulus capillaceus, 3(qto.): 97.
Name authority (Kunth) G. Don: Gen. Hist. 4: 267. (1837) Forsskål: Fl. Aegypt.-Arab., 44. (1775)
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