Ipomoea costellata |
Ipomoea hederifolia |
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crest-rib morning glory |
scarlet creeper, scarlet morning-glory |
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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 ± orbiculate, reniform, or 3-lobed, 20–150 × 20–150 mm, base ± cordate, surfaces glabrous or puberulent. |
Peduncles | usually glabrous, rarely sparsely hispidulous. |
usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely hairy, hairs antrorse. |
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 elliptic to oblong, 4–4.5 mm, herbaceous, apex obtuse or truncate, outers with ± terminal corniform appendage, abaxial surface glabrous; corolla red to red-orange, salverform, 14–30 mm. |
2n | = 28, 30. |
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Ipomoea costellata |
Ipomoea hederifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Nov. | Flowering Oct–Mar. |
Habitat | Chaparral, oak woodlands, ponderosa pine zone, rocky sites. | Disturbed sites, fence rows, thickets. |
Elevation | 100–2200 m. (300–7200 ft.) | 0–1800 m. (0–5900 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico [Introduced in South America]
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AZ; FL; GA; LA; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies
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Discussion | A report of Ipomoea hederifolia from Kansas was presumably based on a cultivated plant, and a report for Vermont (J. T. Atwood et al. 1973) was presumably based on waifs that did not persist. The report of I. hederifolia for New Mexico by W. C. Martin and C. R. Hutchins (1980) was based on misidentified specimens. Ipomoea hederifolia may be established in Virginia. The names Ipomoea coccinea and Quamoclit coccinea (Linnaeus) Moench have been misapplied to plants of I. hederifolia. (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: Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 925. (1759) — (as hederfol.) |
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