Ipomoea indica
Ipomoea coccinea
blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory
Mexican morningglory, red morning-glory, redstar, scarlet morningglory, starglory, woolly tidestromia
usually twining, sometimes trailing.
twining.
blades cordate, rounded-ovate, or 3–5(–7)-lobed, 30–140 × 30–140 mm, base cordate to sagittate, surfaces glabrous or ± pilose.
blades usually cordate, sometimes ovate, sagittate, or triangular, 20–140 mm, base ± cordate, lobes rounded or 1–2-pointed, surfaces glabrous or proximally pilose.
glabrate or sparsely hairy, hairs antrorse to ± appressed.
glabrous.
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.
diurnal;
sepals chartaceous, outers oblong to elliptic, 3–3.5 mm, apex obtuse to truncate, each with ± terminal corniform appendage 2.5–6 mm, inners oblong, 4.5–5.7 mm, chartaceous, apex obtuse to truncate, each with ± terminal, corniform appendage 2–5.5 mm;
corolla usually red or red and yellow, sometimes white (in cultivars), salverform, 20–25 mm.
= 30.
= 28.
Ipomoea indica
Ipomoea coccinea
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.)
Ipomoea coccinea differs from I. hederifolia by reflexed pedicels (erect in I. hederifolia) and larger inner sepals (4.5–5.7 mm) than I. hederifolia (to 3–4 mm).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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