Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea nil |
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blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
ivy morning glory, Japanese morning glory, whiteedge morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Annuals. |
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 cordate, ± orbiculate, ovate, or 3-lobed, 50–150 × 20–140 mm overall, base cordate, surfaces sparsely hirsute to sericeous. |
Peduncles | glabrate or sparsely hairy, hairs antrorse to ± appressed. |
hairy, hairs retrorse. |
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-linear, 15–25(–30) mm, herbaceous, proximally narrowly ovate, densely hispid, gradually narrowed to ± straight, hispid to strigose or glabrate distal portion longer than ovate base; corolla usually blue to purplish, sometimes red or white, tube white or yellow inside, funnelform, (20–)30–60+ mm. |
2n | = 30. |
= 30. |
Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea nil |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | Flowering Jul–Dec. |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets. | Abandoned plantings, fields, thickets. |
Elevation | 0–1600 m. [0–5200 ft.] | 10–2200 m. [30–7200 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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AL; KY; LA; MD; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Asia]
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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.) |
Reports of Ipomoea nil from California are based on misidentified material of I. hederacea. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
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Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Convolvulus indicus, I. mutabilis, Pharbitis cathartica | Convolvulus nil, Pharbitis hederacea, P. nil |
Name authority | (Burman) Merrill: Interpr. Herb. Amboin., 445. (1917) | (Linnaeus) Roth: Catal. Bot. 1: 36. (1797) |
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