Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea dumetorum |
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blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
railway creeper |
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Habit | Perennials. | Annuals. |
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 deltate, ovate, or ovate-elongate, 24–80 × 8–87 mm, base cordate or ± sagittate to truncate, margins sometimes 3-toothed, surfaces glabrous. |
Peduncles | glabrate or sparsely hairy, hairs antrorse to ± appressed. |
pilosulous on proximal 1–2 mm, distally 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 elongate-ovate to ovate, 3.5–8 mm, chartaceous or coriaceous, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surface dotted with dark spots; corolla usually dark lavender to pink, rarely white, funnelform, 15–28 mm. |
2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea dumetorum |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | Flowering Aug–Oct. |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets. | Open, dry to wet sites, washes. |
Elevation | 0–1600 m. [0–5200 ft.] | 2000–2800 m. [6600–9200 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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NM; TX; Mexico; South 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.) |
In the flora area, Ipomoea dumetorum is known from the Davis, Organ, and White mountains. The names I. cardiophylla and I. pulchella (Kunth) G. Don (not Roth) have been misapplied to plants of I. dumetorum. (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) | Willdenow in J. J. Roemer et al.: Syst. Veg. 4: 789. (1819) |
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