Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea aquatica |
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bayhops, beach morning glory, goat's foot |
swamp morning-glory, water-spinach |
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Habit | Perennials. | |
Stems | usually repent, rooting at nodes, sometimes floating, rarely twining. |
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Leaf | blades ± hastate to lanceolate, 40–120 × 20–60 mm, base ± cordate or hastate to truncate, terminal lobe broadly to narrowly triangular or lanceolate, surfaces glabrescent. |
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Peduncles | glabrous. |
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Flowers | sepals elliptic-ovate to oblong-ovate, 6–8 mm, chartaceous or coriaceous, apex acute or obtuse, mucronulate; corolla usually purple, rarely white, funnelform, 40–50 mm. |
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2n | = 30. |
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Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea aquatica |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | |
Habitat | Abandoned plantings, wet sites. | |
Elevation | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) | |
Distribution |
tropical regions; original distribution unknown; now world-wide in subtropical and tropical climates
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CA; FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; Asia; Africa; Australia [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.) |
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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) | Forsskål: Fl. Aegypt.-Arab., 44. (1775) |
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