Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea costellata |
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blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
crest-rib morning glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Annuals. |
Stems | usually twining, sometimes trailing. |
usually trailing, or twining only near tips, rarely erect. |
Leaf | blades cordate, rounded-ovate, or 3–5(–7)-lobed, 30–140 × 30–140 mm, base cordate to sagittate, surfaces glabrous or ± pilose. |
blades palmatisect, lobes 5–9, lance-linear, linear, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 7–28 × 0.5–3(–8) mm, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hispidulous. |
Peduncles | glabrate or sparsely hairy, hairs antrorse to ± appressed. |
usually glabrous, rarely sparsely hispidulous. |
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 lance-oblong to lanceolate, outers 3–5 × 1–2 mm, inners 4–6 × 2–3 mm, herbaceous, apex acute, abaxial surface usually ± carinate and glabrous, sometimes hispidulous on midrib; corolla pale lavender to pink, funnelform, 10–12 mm. |
2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea costellata |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | Flowering Jul–Nov. |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets. | Chaparral, oak woodlands, ponderosa pine zone, rocky sites. |
Elevation | 0–1600 m. [0–5200 ft.] | 100–2200 m. [300–7200 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 [Introduced in 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 | I. costellata var. edwardsensis |
Name authority | (Burman) Merrill: Interpr. Herb. Amboin., 445. (1917) | Torrey in W. H. Emory: Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 149. (1859) |
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