Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea thurberi |
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bayhops, beach morning glory, goat's foot |
Thurber's morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials, root elongate, tuberous. | |
Stems | trailing or twining. |
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Leaf | blades ± sagittate, 10–50 × 20–65 mm overall, base sagittate, or blades palmatisect, lobes 5–7, lanceolate, linear, or oblong, surfaces sparsely strigose. |
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Peduncles | glabrous. |
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Flowers | nocturnal; sepals lanceolate to lance-linear, 12–15 × 3–4 mm, ± herbaceous, base obscurely warty or not, apex acuminate, setaceous-caudate; corolla white, tube green, limb red, rose, drying purple, funnelform-salverform, 50–80 mm, limb 50–65 mm diam. |
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Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea thurberi |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Sep. | |
Habitat | Oak woodlands, rocky sites. | |
Elevation | 1100–1600 m. (3600–5200 ft.) | |
Distribution |
tropical regions; original distribution unknown; now world-wide in subtropical and tropical climates
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AZ; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora) |
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 | I. gentryi |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) R. Brown: Observ. Congo, 58. (1818) | A. Gray in A. Gray et al.: Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2(1): 212. (1878) |
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