Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea shumardiana |
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blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
narrow-leaf morning glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Perennials. |
Stems | usually twining, sometimes trailing. |
trailing or 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 deltate-ovate or narrowly lance-ovate, 30–80 × 10–40 mm, base cordate to truncate, 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. |
sepals not dotted with dark spots, elliptic, oblong, or orbiculate, 10–15 mm, outers shorter than inners, coriaceous, surfaces glabrous; corolla pink or white, throat purple or red inside, funnelform, 50–80 mm, limb 50–80 mm diam. |
2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea shumardiana |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets. | Plains, prairies. |
Elevation | 0–1600 m. [0–5200 ft.] | 200–600 m. [700–2000 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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KS; OK; TX |
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.) |
Ipomoea shumardiana is known only from areas where I. leptophylla and I. pandurata are sympatric; the names I. longifolia and I. pandurata have been misapplied to plants of I. shumardiana. (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 | Convolvulus shumardianus |
Name authority | (Burman) Merrill: Interpr. Herb. Amboin., 445. (1917) | (Torrey) Shinners: SouthW. Naturalist 6: 101. (1961) |
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