Flora of North America species comparison

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Ipomoea capillacea

Ipomoea plummerae

purple morning-glory

Huachuca morningglory, Huachuca Mountain morning-glory, Plummer's morning glory
Habit Perennials.
Stems

usually ascending to erect, sometimes trailing.

usually ± trailing, sometimes ascending, erect, or twining near tips.
Leaf

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

blades of 2 forms;

one form ± orbiculate, palmatisect, lobes (3–)5(–7+), linear to spatulate, 3–30(–50) × (0.5–)1–2.5 mm, base ± truncate; the other form ± cuneate-obovate, proximally cuneate, distally ± incised, 3–5(–7+)-toothed;

surfaces glabrous.
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 oblong to ovate, outers 5–8 × 2–3 mm, abaxial surface ± muricate or smooth, apex acute to obtuse, mucronate, inners broadly ovate, 7–9(–10) × 3–4 mm, apex acuminate to acute, surfaces glabrous, chartaceous to coriaceous;

corolla purple to lavender, funnelform, 25–31 mm, limb 18–22 mm diam.
Vperennials

, root globose, tuberlike.

Ipomoea capillacea

Ipomoea plummerae
Phenology Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat Oak woodlands, plains, pon­derosa pine zones.
Elevation 1500–2500 m. (4900–8200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America
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from USDA
sw United States; Mexico; 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.)

Varieties 3 (2 in the flora).

Variety cupulata J. A. McDonald is known in Mexico from Chihuahua, Guerrero, Jalisco, and Sinaloa.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Leaf blades ± orbiculate, palmatisect, lobes (3–)5(–7+).
var. plummerae
1. Leaf blades ± cuneate-obovate, proximally cune­ate, distally ± incised, 3–5(–7+)-toothed.
var. cuneifolia
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. aquatica, 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. 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
Subordinate taxa
I. plummerae var. cuneifolia, I. plummerae var. plummerae
Synonyms Convolvulus capillaceus, 3(qto.): 97.
Name authority (Kunth) G. Don: Gen. Hist. 4: 267. (1837) A. Gray in A. Gray et al.: Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2, 2(1): 434. (1886)
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