Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea pandurata |
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blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
bigroot morningglory, man-of-the-earth, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato, wild sweet potato morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials, root relatively large. |
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 cordate, cordate-ovate, or pandurate, 30–100 × 20–90 mm, base cordate, surfaces glabrous or abaxial hairy. |
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. |
sepals elliptic-oblong, 12–22 mm, outers sometimes shorter than inners, coriaceous, surfaces glabrous; corolla white, throat lavender or purple-red inside, funnelform, 50–80 mm. |
2n | = 30. |
= 30. |
Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea pandurata |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | Flowering Jun–Sep. |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets. | Abandoned plantings, fields, prairies. |
Elevation | 0–1600 m. [0–5200 ft.] | 0–600 m. [0–2000 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; AR; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MI; MO; MS; NC; NE; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV; ON
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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. |
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Synonyms | Convolvulus indicus, I. mutabilis, Pharbitis cathartica | Convolvulus panduratus |
Name authority | (Burman) Merrill: Interpr. Herb. Amboin., 445. (1917) | (Linnaeus) G. Meyer: Prim. Fl. Esseq., 100. (1818) |
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