Ipomoea costellata |
Ipomoea asarifolia |
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crest-rib morning glory |
ginger-leaf morning-glory |
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Habit | Annuals. | Perennials. |
Stems | usually trailing, or twining only near tips, rarely erect. |
repent, rooting at nodes. |
Leaf | blades palmatisect, lobes 5–9, lance-linear, linear, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 7–28 × 0.5–3(–8) mm, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hispidulous. |
blades cordate to ± orbiculate, 30–120 × 30–120 mm, base cordate, apex acute to rounded, surfaces glabrous. |
Peduncles | usually glabrous, rarely sparsely hispidulous. |
glabrous. |
Flowers | sepals lance-oblong to lanceolate, outers 3–5 × 1–2 mm, inners 4–6 × 2–3 mm, herbaceous, apex acute, abaxial surface usually ± carinate and glabrous, sometimes hispidulous on midrib; corolla pale lavender to pink, funnelform, 10–12 mm. |
sepals chartaceous to coriaceous, outers elliptic, 5–9 mm, apex obtuse, inners elliptic or oblong, 10–15 mm, apex obtuse; corolla usually red, rarely white, funnelform, 50–80 mm. |
Ipomoea costellata |
Ipomoea asarifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Nov. | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | Chaparral, oak woodlands, ponderosa pine zone, rocky sites. | Beaches, moist or swampy sites. |
Elevation | 100–2200 m. (300–7200 ft.) | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico [Introduced in South America]
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FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies (Jamaica) [Introduced in North America] |
Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | I. costellata var. edwardsensis | Convolvulus asarifolius |
Name authority | Torrey in W. H. Emory: Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 149. (1859) | (Desrousseaux) Roemer & Schultes in J. J. Roemer et al.: Syst. Veg. 4: 251. (1819) |
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