Ipomoea costellata |
Ipomoea coccinea |
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crest-rib morning glory |
Mexican morningglory, red morning-glory, redstar, scarlet morningglory, starglory, woolly tidestromia |
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Habit | Annuals. | Annuals. |
Stems | usually trailing, or twining only near tips, rarely erect. |
twining. |
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 usually cordate, sometimes ovate, sagittate, or triangular, 20–140 mm, base ± cordate, lobes rounded or 1–2-pointed, surfaces glabrous or proximally pilose. |
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. |
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. |
2n | = 28. |
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Ipomoea costellata |
Ipomoea coccinea |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Nov. | Flowering Jul–Dec. |
Habitat | Chaparral, oak woodlands, ponderosa pine zone, rocky sites. | Abandoned plantings, disturbed sites. |
Elevation | 100–2200 m. (300–7200 ft.) | 0–300 m. (0–1000 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico [Introduced in South America]
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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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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 |
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Synonyms | I. costellata var. edwardsensis | |
Name authority | Torrey in W. H. Emory: Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 149. (1859) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 160. (1753) |
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