Ipomoea coccinea |
Ipomoea microdactyla |
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Mexican morningglory, red morning-glory, redstar, scarlet morningglory, starglory, woolly tidestromia |
calcareous morning-glory |
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Habit | Annuals. | Perennials, root relatively large, tuberlike. |
Stems | twining. |
trailing, twining, sometimes ± fleshy. |
Leaf | blades usually cordate, sometimes ovate, sagittate, or triangular, 20–140 mm, base ± cordate, lobes rounded or 1–2-pointed, surfaces glabrous or proximally pilose. |
blades elliptic or lanceolate, 30–100 × 10–40 mm overall, base cordate to truncate, surfaces glabrous, or ± orbiculate, (3–)5–7-lobed, incised nearly to petiole tip, lobes narrowly elliptic, linear, or oblong, 20–40 × 3–10 mm. |
Peduncles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Flowers | diurnal; sepals chartaceous, outers oblong to elliptic, 3–3.5 mm, apex obtuse to truncate, each with ± terminal corniform appendage 2.5–6 mm, inners oblong, 4.5–5.7 mm, chartaceous, apex obtuse to truncate, each with ± terminal, corniform appendage 2–5.5 mm; corolla usually red or red and yellow, sometimes white (in cultivars), salverform, 20–25 mm. |
diurnal; sepals oblong, orbiculate, or ovate, 6–7 mm, coriaceous, margins sometimes scarious, apex obtuse, sometimes mucronulate; corolla red, salverform, (25–)40–50 mm, limb 25–30 mm diam., weakly 5-lobed or notably 5-lobed in age. |
2n | = 28. |
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Ipomoea coccinea |
Ipomoea microdactyla |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Dec. | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | Abandoned plantings, disturbed sites. | Coppices, oölitic sites, open fields, pinelands. |
Elevation | 0–300 m. (0–1000 ft.) | 0–20 m. (0–100 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; DC; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV
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FL; West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba) |
Discussion | Ipomoea coccinea differs from I. hederifolia by reflexed pedicels (erect in I. hederifolia) and larger inner sepals (4.5–5.7 mm) than I. hederifolia (to 3–4 mm). (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 | Exogonium microdactylum | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 160. (1753) | Grisebach: Cat. Pl. Cub., 204. (1866) |
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