Ipomoea nil |
Ipomoea tenuiloba |
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ivy morning glory, Japanese morning glory, whiteedge morning-glory |
spiderleaf |
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Habit | Annuals. | Perennials, root tuberlike. | ||||
Stems | twining. |
usually trailing, sometimes twining near tips. |
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Leaf | blades cordate, ± orbiculate, ovate, or 3-lobed, 50–150 × 20–140 mm overall, base cordate, surfaces sparsely hirsute to sericeous. |
blades orbiculate, palmatisect, lobes 5–9, lanceolate to linear, 10–70 × 0.5–6.5 mm, surfaces glabrous. |
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Peduncles | hairy, hairs retrorse. |
glabrous. |
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Flowers | sepals lance-linear, 15–25(–30) mm, herbaceous, proximally narrowly ovate, densely hispid, gradually narrowed to ± straight, hispid to strigose or glabrate distal portion longer than ovate base; corolla usually blue to purplish, sometimes red or white, tube white or yellow inside, funnelform, (20–)30–60+ mm. |
nocturnal; sepals chartaceous or coriaceous, outers oblong-lanceolate, 5–12 × 2–3 mm, muricate along midrib or ± smooth, margins scarious, apex mucronate, inners obovate-acuminate, 8–9 × 3–4 mm, smooth, margins scarious; corolla white, limb sometimes purple or pale rose-red, funnelform or salverform, 35–100 mm, limb 30–36 mm diam. |
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2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea nil |
Ipomoea tenuiloba |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Dec. | |||||
Habitat | Abandoned plantings, fields, thickets. | |||||
Elevation | 10–2200 m. (0–7200 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
AL; KY; LA; MD; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Asia]
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sw United States; sc United States; n Mexico
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Discussion | Reports of Ipomoea nil from California are based on misidentified material of I. hederacea. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). The two varieties of Ipomoea tenuiloba are comparatively easy to distinguish; there are intergrades (G. Yatskievych and C. T. Mason 1984), some approaching I. plummerae. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. | ||||
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | ||||
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Synonyms | Convolvulus nil, Pharbitis hederacea, P. nil | |||||
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Roth: Catal. Bot. 1: 36. (1797) | Torrey in W. H. Emory: Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 148. (1859) | ||||
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