Ipomoea imperati |
Ipomoea pes-caprae |
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beach morning-glory |
bayhops, beach morning glory, goat's foot |
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Habit | Perennials. | |
Stems | repent, rooting at nodes and underground. |
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Leaf | blades lanceolate, linear, oblong, ovate, or 3–5-lobed, 15–80 × 12–60 mm, base cordate to truncate, surfaces glabrous. |
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Peduncles | glabrous. |
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Flowers | sepals lance-oblong, 10–15 mm, outers shorter than inners, ± coriaceous, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surface glabrous; corolla white, throat usually yellow, sometimes purplish inside, funnelform, 25–50 mm. |
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2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea imperati |
Ipomoea pes-caprae |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | |
Habitat | Beaches, dunes. | |
Elevation | 0–10 m. (0–0 ft.) | |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX; HI; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia]
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tropical regions; original distribution unknown; now world-wide in subtropical and tropical climates
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Discussion | Ipomoea imperati was collected once in Pennsylvania (on ballast in 1865). The names I. littoralis (Linnaeus) Boissier 1875, not Blume 1826, and I. stolonifera (Cirillo) J. F. Gmelin are illegitimate; both have been misapplied to plants of I. imperati. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora). Subspecies pes-caprae in known from coastal and island shores around and in the Indian Ocean. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
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Synonyms | Convolvulus imperati | Convolvulus pes-caprae |
Name authority | (Vahl) Grisebach: Cat. Pl. Cub., 203. (1866) | (Linnaeus) R. Brown: Observ. Congo, 58. (1818) |
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