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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Ipomoea quamoclit
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ipomoea quamoclit
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-07-001:
Ipomoea quamoclit FAMILY Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Quamoclit vulgaris
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quamoclit quamoclit
COMMON NAME:
Cypress-vine
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ququ_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_ipomoea_quamoclit_5
August
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_ipomoea_quamoclit_1
August Iredell County NC
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_ipomoea_quamoclit_2
August Iredell County NC
A twining, herbaceous annual vine, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_ipomoea_quamoclit_2b
August Iredell County NC
Lvs pinnately divided into many narrowly linear segments ~ 1mm wide or less, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).
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Keith Bradley kab_i_quamoclit_78912
September Miami-Dade County FL
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JK Marlow jkm151006_350
October Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm151006_351
October Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm151006_353
October Greenville County SC
Its leaves resemble the terminal, needle-bearing twigs of cypress trees, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).
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JK Marlow jkm151007_355b
October Greenville County SC
Funnel-shaped scarlet flowers to 1.4" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Ipomoea quamoclit
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ipomoea quamoclit
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-07-001:
Ipomoea quamoclit
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Quamoclit vulgaris
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quamoclit quamoclit
755
Herbaceous vine (twining)
Annual
Habitat: Fields, hedgerows, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: tropical America
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Does not have milky sap
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Red
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5 unequal sepals
5-lobed salverform or funnelform corolla
5 exserted stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
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) p106
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p407
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p554
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p373
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p217
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p073
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p159
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p200
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p238
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