Ipomoea indica
Ipomoea lacunosa
blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory
pitted morningglory, small white morning glory, white morning-glory, whitestar
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 cordate-ovate, deltate-ovate, ovate, or 3(–5)-lobed, 30–80 × 20–70 mm, base ± cordate, basal lobes rounded or pointed, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hairy.
glabrate or sparsely hairy, hairs antrorse to ± appressed.
glabrous, sometimes muricate.
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 elliptic-oblong, lanceolate, or lance-ovate, (8–)11–14 mm, chartaceous or coriaceous, margins ciliate, apex acuminate, surfaces glabrous;
corolla usually white, limb sometimes pink tinged, funnelform, 15–20(–25) mm.
10–13 mm diam. 2n = 30.
= 30.
Ipomoea indica
Ipomoea lacunosa
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.)
Plants of Ipomoea lacunosa are sometimes confused with plants of I. × leucantha, which are derived from hybridization between I. lacunosa and I. cordatotriloba (D. F. Austin and W. E. Abel 1981). Seeds of Ipomoea lacunosa are 5–6 mm and seeds of I. × leucantha are 3.2–4 mm.
Reports of Ipomoea lacunosa for Ontario, California, and New York are apparently based on waifs.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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