Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea batatas |
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bayhops, beach morning glory, goat's foot |
camote, sweet potato, wild sweet potato |
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Habit | Perennials, root relatively large, tuberlike. | |
Stems | ± trailing, rarely twining. |
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Leaf | blades cordate, broadly ovate, or 5–7-lobed, 50–100+ × 40–100 mm overall, base cordate, surfaces glabrous or hairy. |
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Peduncles | glabrous or hairy, hairs appressed. |
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Flowers | sepals lanceolate to oblong, 8–15 mm, chartaceous; corolla usually lavender, pink, or purplish, sometimes white, throat usually darker inside, funnelform, (30–)40–70 mm. |
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Seeds | glabrous. |
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2n | = 60, 84, 90. |
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Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea batatas |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | |
Habitat | Abandoned plantings, thickets. | |
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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FL; KS; LA; MS; NC; NY; PA; SC; TX; UT; VA; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Asia, Africa]
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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.) |
Reports of Ipomoea batatas from northern parts of the flora area appear to be based on ephemerals. (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 | Convolvulus batatas |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) R. Brown: Observ. Congo, 58. (1818) | (Linnaeus) Lamarck in J. Lamarck and J. Poiret: Tabl. Encycl. 1: 465. (1793) |
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