Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea microdactyla |
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bayhops, beach morning glory, goat's foot |
calcareous morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials, root relatively large, tuberlike. | |
Stems | trailing, twining, sometimes ± fleshy. |
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Leaf | blades elliptic or lanceolate, 30–100 × 10–40 mm overall, base cordate to truncate, surfaces glabrous, or ± orbiculate, (3–)5–7-lobed, incised nearly to petiole tip, lobes narrowly elliptic, linear, or oblong, 20–40 × 3–10 mm. |
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Peduncles | glabrous. |
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Flowers | diurnal; sepals oblong, orbiculate, or ovate, 6–7 mm, coriaceous, margins sometimes scarious, apex obtuse, sometimes mucronulate; corolla red, salverform, (25–)40–50 mm, limb 25–30 mm diam., weakly 5-lobed or notably 5-lobed in age. |
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Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea microdactyla |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | |
Habitat | Coppices, oölitic sites, open fields, pinelands. | |
Elevation | 0–20 m. (0–100 ft.) | |
Distribution |
tropical regions; original distribution unknown; now world-wide in subtropical and tropical climates
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FL; West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba) |
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 | Exogonium microdactylum |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) R. Brown: Observ. Congo, 58. (1818) | Grisebach: Cat. Pl. Cub., 204. (1866) |
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