Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea quamoclit |
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blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
cypress vine, cypress-vine 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 ± elliptic to oblong, 10–90 × 5–45 mm overall, pinnatisect, base ± truncate, lobes 19–41+, filiform to linear, surfaces glabrous. |
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 elliptic to oblong, 4–8 mm, chartaceous to coriaceous, apex mucronate, surfaces glabrous; corolla usually red, sometimes white (in cultivars), salverform, 20–30 mm. |
2n | = 30. |
= 30. |
Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea quamoclit |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | Flowering Jun–Oct. |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets. | Abandoned plantings, forest edges, thickets. |
Elevation | 0–1600 m. [0–5200 ft.] | 0–1500 m. [0–4900 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; DC; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NY; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; ON; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Eurasia; Africa
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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 for Ipomoea quamoclit from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia may be from horticultural plantings. A report from California is from a casual garden weed; it is not naturalized there. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 159. (1753) |
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