Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea asarifolia |
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blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
ginger-leaf morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials. |
Stems | usually twining, sometimes trailing. |
repent, rooting at nodes. |
Leaf | blades cordate, rounded-ovate, or 3–5(–7)-lobed, 30–140 × 30–140 mm, base cordate to sagittate, surfaces glabrous or ± pilose. |
blades cordate to ± orbiculate, 30–120 × 30–120 mm, base cordate, apex acute to rounded, surfaces glabrous. |
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 chartaceous to coriaceous, outers elliptic, 5–9 mm, apex obtuse, inners elliptic or oblong, 10–15 mm, apex obtuse; corolla usually red, rarely white, funnelform, 50–80 mm. |
2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea asarifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets. | Beaches, moist or swampy 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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FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies (Jamaica) [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 | Convolvulus asarifolius |
Name authority | (Burman) Merrill: Interpr. Herb. Amboin., 445. (1917) | (Desrousseaux) Roemer & Schultes in J. J. Roemer et al.: Syst. Veg. 4: 251. (1819) |
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