Ipomoea muricata |
Ipomoea costellata |
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lilac-bell, purple moonflower |
crest-rib morning glory |
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Habit | Annuals. | Annuals. |
Stems | trailing or twining, ± warty or smooth. |
usually trailing, or twining only near tips, rarely erect. |
Leaf | blades usually orbiculate to ovate, sometimes cordate or 3–5-lobed, 70–180 × 70–160 mm, base cordate, surfaces glabrous. |
blades palmatisect, lobes 5–9, lance-linear, linear, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 7–28 × 0.5–3(–8) mm, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hispidulous. |
Peduncles | glabrous. |
usually glabrous, rarely sparsely hispidulous. |
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. |
sepals lance-oblong to lanceolate, outers 3–5 × 1–2 mm, inners 4–6 × 2–3 mm, herbaceous, apex acute, abaxial surface usually ± carinate and glabrous, sometimes hispidulous on midrib; corolla pale lavender to pink, funnelform, 10–12 mm. |
Fruits | 18–20 mm. |
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2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea muricata |
Ipomoea costellata |
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Phenology | Flowering Nov. | Flowering Jul–Nov. |
Habitat | Disturbed sites. | Chaparral, oak woodlands, ponderosa pine zone, rocky sites. |
Elevation | 0–80 m. (0–300 ft.) | 100–2200 m. (300–7200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; TX; Mexico [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America]
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico [Introduced in South America]
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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 |
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Synonyms | Convolvulus muricatus | I. costellata var. edwardsensis |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Jacquin: Pl. Hort. Schoenbr. 3: 40. (1798) | Torrey in W. H. Emory: Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 149. (1859) |
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