Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea lindheimeri |
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blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
blue morningglory, Lindheimer's morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials. |
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 broadly ovate to reniform, 50–60 × 50–80 mm overall, usually 3–5(–7)-lobed, lobes ± lanceolate, base cordate, surfaces ± hirsute or sericeous. |
Peduncles | glabrate or sparsely hairy, hairs antrorse to ± appressed. |
hairy, hairs retrorse, shaggy. |
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 lanceolate to lance-ovate, 18–30 × 3–5(–9) mm, herbaceous, base ± dilated, abaxial surface ± hispid; corolla blue to violet, funnelform, 55–90 mm, limb 60–70 mm diam. |
2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea lindheimeri |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | Flowering Apr–Nov. |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets. | Oak woodlands, rocky sites, stream bottoms. |
Elevation | 0–1600 m. (0–5200 ft.) | 200–2300 m. (700–7500 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
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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. |
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
Sibling taxa | ||
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): 210. (1878) |
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