Ipomoea pandurata |
Ipomoea tenuissima |
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bigroot morningglory, man-of-the-earth, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato, wild sweet potato morning-glory |
rockland morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials, root relatively large. | Annuals. |
Stems | usually twining, sometimes trailing. |
twining. |
Leaf | blades cordate, cordate-ovate, or pandurate, 30–100 × 20–90 mm, base cordate, surfaces glabrous or abaxial hairy. |
blades usually narrowly hastate or sagittate, sometimes ovate, 15–30 × 7–20 mm, base cordate, hastate, or sagittate, lobes usually pointed, sometimes rounded, surfaces usually ± hairy, adaxial sometimes glabrate. |
Peduncles | glabrous. |
hairy, hairs appressed. |
Flowers | sepals elliptic-oblong, 12–22 mm, outers sometimes shorter than inners, coriaceous, surfaces glabrous; corolla white, throat lavender or purple-red inside, funnelform, 50–80 mm. |
sepals lance-oblong, lanceolate, or lance-ovate, 5–8 mm, chartaceous or coriaceous, margins ciliate, apex acuminate, mucronate; corolla lavender, pink, or pink-purple, throat darker inside, funnelform, 30–45 mm. |
2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea pandurata |
Ipomoea tenuissima |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Sep. | Flowering Aug–Sep. |
Habitat | Abandoned plantings, fields, prairies. | Pine flatwoods. |
Elevation | 0–600 m. (0–2000 ft.) | 0–30 m. (0–100 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MI; MO; MS; NC; NE; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV; ON
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FL |
Discussion | After fires, Ipomoea tenuissima seeds germinate and seedlings thrive for about a year. The plants then disappear except in sites that remain open. (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 panduratus | |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) G. Meyer: Prim. Fl. Esseq., 100. (1818) | Choisy in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle: Prodr. 9: 376. (1845) |
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