Ipomoea costellata |
Ipomoea macrorhiza |
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crest-rib morning glory |
large-root morning glory |
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Habit | Annuals. | Perennials, root relatively large, tuberlike. |
Stems | usually trailing, or twining only near tips, rarely erect. |
trailing or 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 ovate, triangular-ovate, or 3-lobed, 50–150 × 50–150 mm, base cordate to sagittate or truncate, margins ± crenulate, surfaces: abaxial tomentulose, adaxial glabrous, minutely beaded along veinlets. |
Peduncles | usually glabrous, rarely sparsely hispidulous. |
tomentulose. |
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. |
nocturnal; sepals oblong-elliptic, 16–18 mm, coriaceous, sericeous; corolla white, throat lavender to purple inside, salverform, 50–80 mm. |
Ipomoea costellata |
Ipomoea macrorhiza |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Nov. | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Chaparral, oak woodlands, ponderosa pine zone, rocky sites. | Beaches, clearings, dunes. |
Elevation | 100–2200 m. (300–7200 ft.) | 0–40 m. (0–100 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico [Introduced in South America]
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AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC |
Discussion | Ipomoea macrorhiza has been confused with the Mexican and Central American I. jalapa (Linnaeus) Pursh; I. macrorhiza differs by having nocturnal, moth-pollinated flowers with white corollas versus matinal, bee-pollinated flowers with lavender corollas. (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) | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 141. (1803) |
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