Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea cardiophylla |
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blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
heart-leaf morning glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Annuals. |
Stems | usually twining, sometimes trailing. |
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 cordate, 20–60 × 14–38 mm, base cordate, 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 triangular, 6 × 3–4 mm, chartaceous to coriaceous, apex acute; corolla blue (drying pink or purple), funnelform, 26–27 mm, limb 30–35 mm diam. |
2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea cardiophylla |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | Flowering Aug–Oct. |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets. | Desert scrub. |
Elevation | 0–1600 m. [0–5200 ft.] | 700–1700 m. [2300–5600 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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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico
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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.) |
The name Ipomoea aristolochiifolia G. Don has been misapplied to plants of I. cardiophylla. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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) | A. Gray in A. Gray et al.: Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2(1): 213. (1878) |
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