Ipomoea capillacea |
Ipomoea thurberi |
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purple morning-glory |
Thurber's morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials, root elongate, tuberous. |
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 ± sagittate, 10–50 × 20–65 mm overall, base sagittate, or blades palmatisect, lobes 5–7, lanceolate, linear, or oblong, surfaces sparsely strigose. |
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. |
nocturnal; sepals lanceolate to lance-linear, 12–15 × 3–4 mm, ± herbaceous, base obscurely warty or not, apex acuminate, setaceous-caudate; corolla white, tube green, limb red, rose, drying purple, funnelform-salverform, 50–80 mm, limb 50–65 mm diam. |
Ipomoea capillacea |
Ipomoea thurberi |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | Flowering Aug–Sep. |
Habitat | Oak woodlands, plains, ponderosa pine zones. | Oak woodlands, rocky sites. |
Elevation | 1500–2500 m. (4900–8200 ft.) | 1100–1600 m. (3600–5200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America
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AZ; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora) |
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. | I. gentryi |
Name authority | (Kunth) G. Don: Gen. Hist. 4: 267. (1837) | A. Gray in A. Gray et al.: Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2(1): 212. (1878) |
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