Ipomoea muricata |
Ipomoea thurberi |
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lilac-bell, purple moonflower |
Thurber's morning-glory |
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Habit | Annuals. | Perennials, root elongate, tuberous. |
Stems | trailing or twining, ± warty or smooth. |
trailing or twining. |
Leaf | blades usually orbiculate to ovate, sometimes cordate or 3–5-lobed, 70–180 × 70–160 mm, base cordate, surfaces glabrous. |
blades ± sagittate, 10–50 × 20–65 mm overall, base sagittate, or blades palmatisect, lobes 5–7, lanceolate, linear, or oblong, surfaces sparsely strigose. |
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 lanceolate to lance-linear, 12–15 × 3–4 mm, ± herbaceous, base obscurely warty or not, apex acuminate, setaceous-caudate; corolla white, tube green, limb red, rose, drying purple, funnelform-salverform, 50–80 mm, limb 50–65 mm diam. |
Fruits | 18–20 mm. |
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2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea muricata |
Ipomoea thurberi |
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Phenology | Flowering Nov. | Flowering Aug–Sep. |
Habitat | Disturbed sites. | Oak woodlands, rocky sites. |
Elevation | 0–80 m. (0–300 ft.) | 1100–1600 m. (3600–5200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; TX; Mexico [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America]
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AZ; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora) |
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. gentryi |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Jacquin: Pl. Hort. Schoenbr. 3: 40. (1798) | A. Gray in A. Gray et al.: Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2(1): 212. (1878) |
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