Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea wrightii |
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blue morningglory, oceanblue morning-glory |
palmleaf morningglory, Wright's morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Annuals. |
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 ± pentagonal, 30–80 × 20–80 mm overall, palmatisect, lobes 5, lance-linear to lanceolate, (21–)35–50(–80) × (5–)10–15(–20) mm, apex acute, surfaces glabrous. |
Peduncles | glabrate or sparsely hairy, hairs antrorse to ± appressed. |
usually spiraled, 50–100 mm, 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 ovate, 5–7 mm, chartaceous or coriaceous, apex obtuse to rounded, abaxial surface glabrous; corolla red, rosy, throat red-violet, funnelform, 18–30 mm. |
2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea indica |
Ipomoea wrightii |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | Flowering Jul–Oct. |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets. | Disturbed sites, fields, marshy sites. |
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; FL; GA; LA; MS; OK; TN; TX; Asia [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America (Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru), Africa, Australia]
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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.) |
Ipomoea wrightii may be spread as a contaminant in seeds. The names Ipomoea heptaphylla (Roxburg) Voigt and I. pulchella Roth have been misapplied to plants of I. wrightii. (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) | A. Gray in A. Gray et al.: Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2(1): 213. (1878) |
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