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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Ipomoea purpurea
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
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Read more about Common Morning Glory at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ipomoea purpurea
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-07-003:
Ipomoea purpurea FAMILY Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pharbitis purpurea
COMMON NAME:
Common Morning Glory
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ippu2_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_ippu2_005_lvd
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USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970 swus_page_303
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JK Marlow s080730_b
July Greenville County SC
Ipomoea has no bracts below calyx, whereas Calystegia and Convolvulus do, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
COMPARE
sepals and bracts of Bindweed and Morning Glory
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JK Marlow s080730_d
July Greenville County SC
The 5 stamens are inserted within corolla tube; the stigma is globose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm070831_003
August Greenville County SC
Roadside
9:30 am
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JK Marlow jkm070831_004
August Greenville County SC
Roadside
9:30 am
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JK Marlow jkm070831_009
August Greenville County SC
Roadside
9:30 am
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JK Marlow jkm070831_016
August Greenville County SC
Roadside
2:00 pm
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JK Marlow jkm140922_904
September Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Sepals with slightly narrowed green tips shorter than to slightly longer than body of sepal, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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JK Marlow jkm180908_4643
September Greenville County SC
The 2-3" funnelform flowers may be purple, blue, pink, white or variegated, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm180908_4645
September Greenville County SC
Leaves widely ovate, acuminate, cordate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_ipomoea_purpurea
September
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Stephanie C. Brundage scb_092619EClayCty10ed
September Clay County NC
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Stephanie C. Brundage scb_092619EClayCty12ed
September Clay County NC
Sepals subequal, basal half spreading hirsute abaxially. Capsule subglobose, per Flora of China.
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Stephanie C. Brundage scb_092619EClayCty12edb
September Clay County NC
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JK Marlow jkm0210e_19a
October Greenville County SC
Roadside
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Ipomoea purpurea
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ipomoea purpurea
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-07-003:
Ipomoea purpurea
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pharbitis purpurea
754
Herbaceous vine
Annual
Habitat: Fields, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: tropical America
Common
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This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Purple/ Pink/ White
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5 sepals
Shallowly 5-lobed (or merely wavy-edged) campanulate corolla
5 included stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Flowers solitary or in umbel-like clusters of 1-5, on long stalk from leaf axils
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p104
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p399
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p548
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p324
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p357
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p213
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p072
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p207
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p159
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p202
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p239
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p130
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