Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea amnicola |
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bayhops, beach morning glory, goat's foot |
red-center morning glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | |
Stems | usually twining, sometimes decumbent. |
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Leaf | blades cordate-ovate, reniform, or 3-lobed, 20–125 × 20–125 mm, base cordate, surfaces glabrous. |
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Peduncles | glabrous, sometimes warty. |
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Flowers | sepals: outers usually ± orbiculate, sometimes oblong or elliptic, rarely ovate, 4–5 mm, inners obovate to ± orbiculate, 4–5.5 mm, chartaceous or membranous, margins scarious, apex usually emarginate, mucronulate, or obtuse, sometimes truncate; corolla white with red (rose) lines or wholly lilac, throat darker, funnelform, 18–30 mm. |
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Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea amnicola |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul(–Dec). | |
Habitat | Disturbed sites. | |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | |
Distribution |
tropical regions; original distribution unknown; now world-wide in subtropical and tropical climates
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TX; Mexico; South America (Argentina, Paraguay) [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora). Subspecies pes-caprae in known from coastal and island shores around and in the Indian Ocean. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
In the flora area, Ipomoea amnicola has been reported also from a Missouri collection made in 1921. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
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Synonyms | Convolvulus pes-caprae | |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) R. Brown: Observ. Congo, 58. (1818) | Morong: Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 7: 170. (1893) |
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