Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea macrorhiza |
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bayhops, beach morning glory, goat's foot |
large-root morning glory |
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Habit | Perennials, root relatively large, tuberlike. | |
Stems | trailing or twining. |
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Leaf | blades ovate, triangular-ovate, or 3-lobed, 50–150 × 50–150 mm, base cordate to sagittate or truncate, margins ± crenulate, surfaces: abaxial tomentulose, adaxial glabrous, minutely beaded along veinlets. |
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Peduncles | tomentulose. |
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Flowers | nocturnal; sepals oblong-elliptic, 16–18 mm, coriaceous, sericeous; corolla white, throat lavender to purple inside, salverform, 50–80 mm. |
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Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea macrorhiza |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. | |
Habitat | Beaches, clearings, dunes. | |
Elevation | 0–40 m. (0–100 ft.) | |
Distribution |
tropical regions; original distribution unknown; now world-wide in subtropical and tropical climates
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AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC |
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.) |
Ipomoea macrorhiza has been confused with the Mexican and Central American I. jalapa (Linnaeus) Pursh; I. macrorhiza differs by having nocturnal, moth-pollinated flowers with white corollas versus matinal, bee-pollinated flowers with lavender corollas. (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) | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 141. (1803) |
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