Ipomoea capillacea |
Ipomoea rupicola |
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purple morning-glory |
cliff morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials, rhizomatous. |
Stems | usually ascending to erect, sometimes trailing. |
trailing or twining. |
Leaf | blades palmatisect, lobes 5–9, filiform to linear, (3–)5–15(–25) × 0.2–1 mm. |
blades usually cordate-ovate to oblong-ovate, sometimes pandurate, 30–90 × 20–70 mm, base cordate-hastate, margins sometimes indented, rarely lobed or toothed, surfaces tomentulose, glabrescent. |
Peduncles | glabrous. |
hairy, tomentulose, hairs ± appressed. |
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 to oblong-ovate, 12–14 mm, coriaceous, apex obtuse, rounded, or subacute; corolla lavender-pink or purple, throat darker inside, funnelform, 70–90 mm. |
Seeds | hairy. |
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Ipomoea capillacea |
Ipomoea rupicola |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | Flowering Jun–Oct. |
Habitat | Oak woodlands, plains, ponderosa pine zones. | Rocky, open sites. |
Elevation | 1500–2500 m. (4900–8200 ft.) | 20–1800 m. (100–5900 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America
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TX; Mexico (Tamaulipas) |
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. | |
Name authority | (Kunth) G. Don: Gen. Hist. 4: 267. (1837) | House: Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 18: 230. (1908) |
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