Ipomoea muricata |
Ipomoea alba |
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lilac-bell, purple moonflower |
moon flower, tropical white morning-glory |
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Habit | Annuals. | Perennials. |
Stems | trailing or twining, ± warty or smooth. |
twining, usually prickly, sometimes rooting at nodes. |
Leaf | blades usually orbiculate to ovate, sometimes cordate or 3–5-lobed, 70–180 × 70–160 mm, base cordate, surfaces glabrous. |
blades broadly ovate to triangular or 3–5-lobed, 50–150 × 50–150 mm, base cordate, surfaces usually glabrous, rarely hairy. |
Peduncles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Flowers | nocturnal; sepals oblong to ovate, 6–8 mm, chartaceous to coriaceous, apex acute, outers each with ± corniform appendage 4–6 mm; corolla white, turning lavender in morning, salverform, limb sometimes ± campanulate, 30–75 mm. |
nocturnal; sepals ovate, 7–15 mm, ± coriaceous, apex acute, outers each with midrib extending as ± corniform appendage; corolla white, throat green-banded inside, salverform, 70–150 mm. |
Fruits | 18–20 mm. |
20–30 mm. |
2n | = 30. |
= 30. |
Ipomoea muricata |
Ipomoea alba |
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Phenology | Flowering Nov. | Flowering Sep–May. |
Habitat | Disturbed sites. | Forest margins, swamps, moist sites. |
Elevation | 0–80 m. (0–300 ft.) | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; TX; Mexico [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America]
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FL; LA; SC; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Asia]
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Discussion | Ipomoea muricata has been spread as a contaminant in soybean seeds (C. R. Gunn 1970). The name Ipomoea turbinata Lagasca is illegitimate and has been misapplied to plants of I. muricata (G. W. Staples et al. 2006). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Convolvulus muricatus | Calonyction aculeatum, Convolvulus aculeatus |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Jacquin: Pl. Hort. Schoenbr. 3: 40. (1798) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 161. (1753) |
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