Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea aquatica |
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blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
swamp morning-glory, water-spinach |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials. |
Stems | usually twining, sometimes trailing. |
usually repent, rooting at nodes, sometimes floating, rarely twining. |
Leaf | blades cordate, rounded-ovate, or 3–5(–7)-lobed, 30–140 × 30–140 mm, base cordate to sagittate, surfaces glabrous or ± pilose. |
blades ± hastate to lanceolate, 40–120 × 20–60 mm, base ± cordate or hastate to truncate, terminal lobe broadly to narrowly triangular or lanceolate, surfaces glabrescent. |
Peduncles | glabrate or sparsely hairy, hairs antrorse to ± appressed. |
glabrous. |
Flowers | sepals lance-ovate, 14–21 mm, herbaceous, apex ± acuminate, surfaces glabrous or abaxial sparsely hairy, hairs appressed; corolla usually blue to purple, rarely white, throat and tube white, funnelform, 50–70 mm. |
sepals elliptic-ovate to oblong-ovate, 6–8 mm, chartaceous or coriaceous, apex acute or obtuse, mucronulate; corolla usually purple, rarely white, funnelform, 40–50 mm. |
2n | = 30. |
= 30. |
Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea aquatica |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets. | Abandoned plantings, wet sites. |
Elevation | 0–1600 m. [0–5200 ft.] | 0–100 m. [0–300 ft.] |
Distribution |
AL; CA; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; PA; SC; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in Asia]
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CA; FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; Asia; Africa; Australia [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | In the flora area, Ipomoea indica rarely produces seeds and rarely survives winters. It is probably native in southern Florida. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
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Synonyms | Convolvulus indicus, I. mutabilis, Pharbitis cathartica | |
Name authority | (Burman) Merrill: Interpr. Herb. Amboin., 445. (1917) | Forsskål: Fl. Aegypt.-Arab., 44. (1775) |
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