Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea shumardiana |
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bayhops, beach morning glory, goat's foot |
narrow-leaf morning glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | |
Stems | trailing or twining. |
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Leaf | blades deltate-ovate or narrowly lance-ovate, 30–80 × 10–40 mm, base cordate to truncate, surfaces glabrous. |
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Peduncles | glabrous. |
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Flowers | sepals not dotted with dark spots, elliptic, oblong, or orbiculate, 10–15 mm, outers shorter than inners, coriaceous, surfaces glabrous; corolla pink or white, throat purple or red inside, funnelform, 50–80 mm, limb 50–80 mm diam. |
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Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea shumardiana |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | |
Habitat | Plains, prairies. | |
Elevation | 200–600 m. (700–2000 ft.) | |
Distribution |
tropical regions; original distribution unknown; now world-wide in subtropical and tropical climates
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KS; OK; TX |
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 shumardiana is known only from areas where I. leptophylla and I. pandurata are sympatric; the names I. longifolia and I. pandurata have been misapplied to plants of I. shumardiana. (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 shumardianus |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) R. Brown: Observ. Congo, 58. (1818) | (Torrey) Shinners: SouthW. Naturalist 6: 101. (1961) |
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