Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea microdactyla |
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blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
calcareous morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials, root relatively large, tuberlike. |
Stems | usually twining, sometimes trailing. |
trailing, twining, sometimes ± fleshy. |
Leaf | blades cordate, rounded-ovate, or 3–5(–7)-lobed, 30–140 × 30–140 mm, base cordate to sagittate, surfaces glabrous or ± pilose. |
blades elliptic or lanceolate, 30–100 × 10–40 mm overall, base cordate to truncate, surfaces glabrous, or ± orbiculate, (3–)5–7-lobed, incised nearly to petiole tip, lobes narrowly elliptic, linear, or oblong, 20–40 × 3–10 mm. |
Peduncles | glabrate or sparsely hairy, hairs antrorse to ± appressed. |
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. |
diurnal; sepals oblong, orbiculate, or ovate, 6–7 mm, coriaceous, margins sometimes scarious, apex obtuse, sometimes mucronulate; corolla red, salverform, (25–)40–50 mm, limb 25–30 mm diam., weakly 5-lobed or notably 5-lobed in age. |
2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea microdactyla |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets. | Coppices, oölitic sites, open fields, pinelands. |
Elevation | 0–1600 m. [0–5200 ft.] | 0–20 m. [0–70 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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FL; West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba) |
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 | Exogonium microdactylum |
Name authority | (Burman) Merrill: Interpr. Herb. Amboin., 445. (1917) | Grisebach: Cat. Pl. Cub., 204. (1866) |
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