Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea plummerae |
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bayhops, beach morning glory, goat's foot, man-of-the-earth |
Huachuca morningglory, Huachuca Mountain morning-glory, Plummer's morning glory |
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| Stems | usually ± trailing, sometimes ascending, erect, or twining near tips. |
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| Leaf | blades of 2 forms; one form ± orbiculate, palmatisect, lobes (3–)5(–7+), linear to spatulate, 3–30(–50) × (0.5–)1–2.5 mm, base ± truncate; the other form ± cuneate-obovate, proximally cuneate, distally ± incised, 3–5(–7+)-toothed; surfaces glabrous. |
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| Peduncles | glabrous. |
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| Flowers | sepals oblong to ovate, outers 5–8 × 2–3 mm, abaxial surface ± muricate or smooth, apex acute to obtuse, mucronate, inners broadly ovate, 7–9(–10) × 3–4 mm, apex acuminate to acute, surfaces glabrous, chartaceous to coriaceous; corolla purple to lavender, funnelform, 25–31 mm, limb 18–22 mm diam. |
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| Vperennials | , root globose, tuberlike. |
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Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea plummerae |
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| Distribution |
tropical regions; original distribution unknown; now world-wide in subtropical and tropical climates
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sw United States; Mexico; South America
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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.) |
Varieties 3 (2 in the flora). Variety cupulata J. A. McDonald is known in Mexico from Chihuahua, Guerrero, Jalisco, and Sinaloa. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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| Synonyms | Convolvulus pes-caprae | |||||
| Name authority | (Linnaeus) R. Brown: Observ. Congo, 58. (1818) | A. Gray in A. Gray et al.: Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2, 2(1): 434. (1886) | ||||
| Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. | ||||
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