Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea pubescens |
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blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
silky morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials, root oblong, relatively large. |
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, ovate, or 3–5-lobed, 20–80 × 20–90 mm, base cordate, lobes elliptic to ovate, surfaces ± hirsute or coarsely sericeous. |
Peduncles | glabrate or sparsely hairy, hairs antrorse to ± appressed. |
hairy, hairs retrorse or spreading. |
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-ovate to ovate, 9–21 × 2–11 mm, herbaceous, abaxial surface ± hispid or coarsely sericeous; corolla blue to violet, funnelform, 55–80 mm, limb 60–70 mm diam. |
2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea pubescens |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | Flowering Aug–Sep. |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets. | Rocky sites, stream beds, oak woodlands. |
Elevation | 0–1600 m. [0–5200 ft.] | 100–1600 m. [300–5200 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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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico; South America
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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 | |
Name authority | (Burman) Merrill: Interpr. Herb. Amboin., 445. (1917) | Lamarck in J. Lamarck and J. Poiret: Tabl. Encycl. 1: 465. (1793) — (as Ipomaea) |
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