Ipomoea muricata |
Ipomoea sloteri |
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lilac-bell, purple moonflower |
cardinal climber |
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Habit | Annuals. | Annuals. |
Stems | trailing or twining, ± warty or smooth. |
twining. |
Leaf | blades usually orbiculate to ovate, sometimes cordate or 3–5-lobed, 70–180 × 70–160 mm, base cordate, surfaces glabrous. |
blades deltate-ovate to oblong-ovate, 10–90 × 5–45 mm overall, palmati-pinnate, base cordate to ± truncate, lobes 7–11+, lanceolate, lance-linear, or linear, proximal ones sometimes again lobed, terminal lobe broadest, surfaces glabrous. |
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. |
diurnal; sepals elliptic to oblong, 4–8 mm, ± chartaceous, apex obtuse, mucronate, surfaces glabrous; corolla red, salverform, 40–50 mm. |
Fruits | 18–20 mm. |
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2n | = 30. |
= 58. |
Ipomoea muricata |
Ipomoea sloteri |
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Phenology | Flowering Nov. | Flowering Jun–Oct. |
Habitat | Disturbed sites. | Abandoned plantings, disturbed sites. |
Elevation | 0–80 m. (0–300 ft.) | 0–300 m. (0–1000 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; TX; Mexico [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America]
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FL; MI; NY; TX |
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.) |
According to J. E. Eckenwalder (1986), the name Ipomoea × multifida Rafinesque (as species) refers to diploid hybrid plants resulting from crosses between I. coccinea and I. quamoclit; I. sloteri refers to allotetraploid plants derived from diploid hybrids between I. coccinea and I. quamoclit. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Convolvulus muricatus | |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Jacquin: Pl. Hort. Schoenbr. 3: 40. (1798) | Macfarlane ex E. T. Reichert: Publ. Carnegie Inst. Wash. 270(2): 785. (1919) |
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