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.
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
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.
Comments:
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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