Ipomoea capillacea |
Ipomoea costellata |
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purple morning-glory |
crest-rib morning glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Annuals. |
Stems | usually ascending to erect, sometimes trailing. |
usually trailing, or twining only near tips, rarely erect. |
Leaf | blades palmatisect, lobes 5–9, filiform to linear, (3–)5–15(–25) × 0.2–1 mm. |
blades palmatisect, lobes 5–9, lance-linear, linear, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 7–28 × 0.5–3(–8) mm, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hispidulous. |
Peduncles | glabrous. |
usually glabrous, rarely sparsely hispidulous. |
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 lance-oblong to lanceolate, outers 3–5 × 1–2 mm, inners 4–6 × 2–3 mm, herbaceous, apex acute, abaxial surface usually ± carinate and glabrous, sometimes hispidulous on midrib; corolla pale lavender to pink, funnelform, 10–12 mm. |
Ipomoea capillacea |
Ipomoea costellata |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | Flowering Jul–Nov. |
Habitat | Oak woodlands, plains, ponderosa pine zones. | Chaparral, oak woodlands, ponderosa pine zone, rocky sites. |
Elevation | 1500–2500 m. (4900–8200 ft.) | 100–2200 m. (300–7200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico [Introduced in South 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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
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Synonyms | Convolvulus capillaceus, 3(qto.): 97. | I. costellata var. edwardsensis |
Name authority | (Kunth) G. Don: Gen. Hist. 4: 267. (1837) | Torrey in W. H. Emory: Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 149. (1859) |
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