Ipomoea capillacea |
Ipomoea wrightii |
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purple morning-glory |
palmleaf morningglory, Wright's morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Annuals. |
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 ± pentagonal, 30–80 × 20–80 mm overall, palmatisect, lobes 5, lance-linear to lanceolate, (21–)35–50(–80) × (5–)10–15(–20) mm, apex acute, surfaces glabrous. |
Peduncles | glabrous. |
usually spiraled, 50–100 mm, 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 ovate, 5–7 mm, chartaceous or coriaceous, apex obtuse to rounded, abaxial surface glabrous; corolla red, rosy, throat red-violet, funnelform, 18–30 mm. |
Ipomoea capillacea |
Ipomoea wrightii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | Flowering Jul–Oct. |
Habitat | Oak woodlands, plains, ponderosa pine zones. | Disturbed sites, fields, marshy sites. |
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; FL; GA; LA; MS; OK; TN; TX; Asia [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America (Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru), Africa, Australia]
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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.) |
Ipomoea wrightii may be spread as a contaminant in seeds. The names Ipomoea heptaphylla (Roxburg) Voigt and I. pulchella Roth have been misapplied to plants of I. wrightii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
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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. 2(1): 213. (1878) |
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