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Ipomoea hederacea Jacquin. Common name: Ivyleaf Morning-glory. Phenology: May-Nov (-Apr). Habitat: Fields, disturbed areas. Distribution: ME, MN, ND, NM, AZ, and CA south to s. FL, s. TX, and Mexico; Cuba. Native to the Mexico and the southeastern United States (the core of its distribution), but the more precise limits of its native distribution are obscure (populations in New England, Ontario, and the n. Midwestern US may be only adventive). Its current distribution is centered in southeastern North America and it was encountered there by "early botanists" Michaux and Pursh in the first decades of the 1800s, but its current genetic structure suggests that it may have been introduced (Campitelli & Stinchcombe 2014). Austin (in Davidse et al. 2012) considered its area of nativity to to be the southeastern United States. Austin (1986) also described it as "a temperate plant that grows poorly, if at all, in tropical climes" (in contrast to Ipomoea nil).

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy : = Ar, Bah, C, Fl6, FNA14, GrPl, GW2, Il, K4, Meso4.2, Mex, Mi, NcTx, NE, NY, Pa, Tat, Tn, Tx, Va, W, WH3, WV, Austin & Huáman (1996), Austin (1984), Wood et al (2020b), (basionym); > Ipomoea hederacea Jacq. var. hederacea — F, G, RAB; > Ipomoea hederacea Jacq. var. integriuscula A.Gray — F, G, RAB; >< Ipomoea nil (L.) Roth, misapplied; > Pharbitis barbigera (Sweet) G.Don — S; > Pharbitis hederacea (L.) Choisy — S

Links to other floras: = Ipomoea hederacea - FNA14

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACU
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACU
  • Great Plains: FAC
  • Midwest: FAC
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FAC

Heliophily : 8

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Herbaceous, annual vine of fields, roadsides, gardens and other disturbed areas.

Stems: Stems twining and hairy.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, on light green to dull red petioles, heart-shaped and deeply indented at the base, or deeply 3-lobed with rounded sinuses and pointed lobes, to 5 in. long and sparsely hairy.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in clusters of 1-3, sky-blue quickly changing to rose-purple and with a white throat, 1-2 in. wide, the corolla tubular and funnel-shaped and the calyx with densely hairy sepals abruptly tapering to 5 linear tips.

Fruits: Fruit a nearly round capsule.

Comments: Each flower is open for only a few hours, from morning to early afternoon.

Height: to 6 ft. (long)

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description: Herbaceous, annual vine of fields, roadsides, gardens and other disturbed areas.

stems: Stems twining and hairy.

leaves: Leaves alternate, on light green to dull red petioles, heart-shaped and deeply indented at the base, or deeply 3-lobed with rounded sinuses and pointed lobes, to 5 in. long and sparsely hairy.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in clusters of 1-3, sky-blue quickly changing to rose-purple and with a white throat, 1-2 in. wide, the corolla tubular and funnel-shaped and the calyx with densely hairy sepals abruptly tapering to 5 linear tips.

fruits: Fruit a nearly round capsule.

comments: Each flower is open for only a few hours, from morning to early afternoon.

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