Ipomoea capillacea |
Ipomoea nil |
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purple morning-glory |
ivy morning glory, Japanese morning glory, whiteedge morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Annuals. |
Stems | usually ascending to erect, sometimes trailing. |
twining. |
Leaf | blades palmatisect, lobes 5–9, filiform to linear, (3–)5–15(–25) × 0.2–1 mm. |
blades cordate, ± orbiculate, ovate, or 3-lobed, 50–150 × 20–140 mm overall, base cordate, surfaces sparsely hirsute to sericeous. |
Peduncles | glabrous. |
hairy, hairs retrorse. |
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-linear, 15–25(–30) mm, herbaceous, proximally narrowly ovate, densely hispid, gradually narrowed to ± straight, hispid to strigose or glabrate distal portion longer than ovate base; corolla usually blue to purplish, sometimes red or white, tube white or yellow inside, funnelform, (20–)30–60+ mm. |
2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea capillacea |
Ipomoea nil |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | Flowering Jul–Dec. |
Habitat | Oak woodlands, plains, ponderosa pine zones. | Abandoned plantings, fields, thickets. |
Elevation | 1500–2500 m. (4900–8200 ft.) | 10–2200 m. (0–7200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America
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AL; KY; LA; MD; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Asia]
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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.) |
Reports of Ipomoea nil from California are based on misidentified material of I. hederacea. (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 | ||
Synonyms | Convolvulus capillaceus, 3(qto.): 97. | Convolvulus nil, Pharbitis hederacea, P. nil |
Name authority | (Kunth) G. Don: Gen. Hist. 4: 267. (1837) | (Linnaeus) Roth: Catal. Bot. 1: 36. (1797) |
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