Ipomoea capillacea |
Ipomoea pandurata |
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purple morning-glory |
bigroot morningglory, man-of-the-earth, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato, wild sweet potato morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials, root relatively large. |
Stems | usually ascending to erect, sometimes trailing. |
usually twining, sometimes trailing. |
Leaf | blades palmatisect, lobes 5–9, filiform to linear, (3–)5–15(–25) × 0.2–1 mm. |
blades cordate, cordate-ovate, or pandurate, 30–100 × 20–90 mm, base cordate, surfaces glabrous or abaxial hairy. |
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-oblong, 12–22 mm, outers sometimes shorter than inners, coriaceous, surfaces glabrous; corolla white, throat lavender or purple-red inside, funnelform, 50–80 mm. |
2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea capillacea |
Ipomoea pandurata |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | Flowering Jun–Sep. |
Habitat | Oak woodlands, plains, ponderosa pine zones. | Abandoned plantings, fields, prairies. |
Elevation | 1500–2500 m. (4900–8200 ft.) | 0–600 m. (0–2000 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America
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AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MI; MO; MS; NC; NE; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV; ON
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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 |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Convolvulus capillaceus, 3(qto.): 97. | Convolvulus panduratus |
Name authority | (Kunth) G. Don: Gen. Hist. 4: 267. (1837) | (Linnaeus) G. Meyer: Prim. Fl. Esseq., 100. (1818) |
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