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Convolvulaceae
Ipomoea

not marked as a favorite taxon Ipomoea sagittata Poiret. Common name: Saltmarsh Morning-glory. Phenology: Apr-Oct. Habitat: Edges of brackish marshes, moist thickets on barrier islands, hammocks. Distribution: E. NC south to s. FL, west to TX; eastern Mexico and Central America; West Indies. Also present in the Old World, around the Mediterranean and in n. Africa (the type is from Africa); this distribution is likely from early anthropogenic dispersal from the West Indies.

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Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = Bah, Fl6, FNA14, GW2, K4, Mex, RAB, S, Tx, WH3, WI, Austin & Huáman (1996), Austin (1984), Wood et al (2020b). Basionym: Ipomoea sagittata Poir. 1789

Links to other floras: = Ipomoea sagittata - FNA14

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
  • Great Plains: FACW

Heliophily ⓘ: 9

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Herbaceous perennial vine of brackish marshe edges, moist thickets on barrier islands and hammocks.

Stems: Stems trailing or twining, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, arrowhead-shaped with pointed or rounded basal lobes, 1 1/2-3 1/2 in. long.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers singular or in small clusters of 2-3, lavender-rose with darker throat, about 3 in. wide, tubular-funnel-shaped with 5 shallow lobes at the rim, surrounded at the base by 5 leathery, elliptic-oblong sepals.

Fruits: Fruit a rounded capsule.

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Height: 6 ft. or more long

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description: Herbaceous perennial vine of brackish marshe edges, moist thickets on barrier islands and hammocks.

stems: Stems trailing or twining, smooth.

leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, arrowhead-shaped with pointed or rounded basal lobes, 1 1/2-3 1/2 in. long.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers singular or in small clusters of 2-3, lavender-rose with darker throat, about 3 in. wide, tubular-funnel-shaped with 5 shallow lobes at the rim, surrounded at the base by 5 leathery, elliptic-oblong sepals.

fruits: Fruit a rounded capsule.

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