Ipomoea sagittata |
Ipomoea wrightii |
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saltmarsh morning-glory |
palmleaf morningglory, Wright's morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials. | Annuals. |
Stems | twining. |
usually twining, sometimes trailing. |
Leaf | blades ± triangular, 40–100 × 20–60 mm overall, base hastate to sagittate, basal lobes lanceolate, linear, or narrowly triangular, 15–60(–100) × 3–8(–15) mm, surfaces glabrous. |
blades ± pentagonal, 30–80 × 20–80 mm overall, palmatisect, lobes 5, lance-linear to lanceolate, (21–)35–50(–80) × (5–)10–15(–20) mm, apex acute, surfaces glabrous. |
Peduncles | glabrous. |
usually spiraled, 50–100 mm, glabrous. |
Flowers | sepals elliptic, oblong, or ovate, 8–9 mm, coriaceous, apex obtuse to rounded, mucronate, surfaces glabrous; corolla lavender, purple, or red-purple, funnelform, 60–90 mm, limb 60–80 mm diam. |
sepals ovate, 5–7 mm, chartaceous or coriaceous, apex obtuse to rounded, abaxial surface glabrous; corolla red, rosy, throat red-violet, funnelform, 18–30 mm. |
Ipomoea sagittata |
Ipomoea wrightii |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Oct. | Flowering Jul–Oct. |
Habitat | Beaches, brackish or freshwater marshes, swamps. | Disturbed sites, fields, marshy sites. |
Elevation | 0–400 m. (0–1300 ft.) | 0–600 m. (0–2000 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX; Mexico; West Indies [Introduced in Eurasia, nw Africa]
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AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; OK; TN; TX; Asia [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America (Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru), Africa, Australia]
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Discussion | Ipomoea wrightii may be spread as a contaminant in seeds. The names Ipomoea heptaphylla (Roxburg) Voigt and I. pulchella Roth have been misapplied to plants of I. wrightii. (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 |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Poiret: Voy. Barbarie 2: 122. (1789) — (as Ipomea) | A. Gray in A. Gray et al.: Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2(1): 213. (1878) |
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