Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea cairica |
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blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
cairo morning glory, mile-a-minute vine |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials. |
Stems | usually twining, sometimes trailing. |
usually twining, sometimes trailing. |
Leaf | blades cordate, rounded-ovate, or 3–5(–7)-lobed, 30–140 × 30–140 mm, base cordate to sagittate, surfaces glabrous or ± pilose. |
blades orbiculate to ovate, 30–100 × 30–100 mm overall, palmatisect, lobes 5 (proximal 2 sometimes 2-lobed), lance-elliptic, lanceolate, or lance-ovate, (5–)10–25(–70) × (3–)8–15(–30) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glabrous. |
Peduncles | glabrate or sparsely hairy, hairs antrorse to ± appressed. |
glabrous; pedicels straight, 10–25 mm. |
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 oblong to ovate, 4–6.5(–9) mm, outers slightly shorter than inners, chartaceous, margins scarious, apex obtuse to acute; corolla lavender-blue or white, throat purplish-red, funnelform, 45–60 mm. |
2n | = 30. |
= 30. |
Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea cairica |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | Flowering Mar–Oct. |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets. | Abandoned plantings, disturbed sites. |
Elevation | 0–1600 m. [0–5200 ft.] | -20–200 m. [-70–700 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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AL; CA; FL; LA; Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico (Oaxaca), West Indies, South America]
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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 cairicus |
Name authority | (Burman) Merrill: Interpr. Herb. Amboin., 445. (1917) | (Linnaeus) Sweet: Hort. Brit., 287. (1826) |
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