Common Name: MORNING-GLORY FAMILY Habit: Annual, perennial herb, subshrub, generally twining or trailing. Leaf: 0 or alternate. Inflorescence: cyme or flowers 1 in axils; bracts subtending flowers 0 or 2. Flower: bisexual, radial; sepals (4)5, +- free, overlapping, persistent, often unequal; corolla generally showy, generally bell-shaped, +- shallowly 5-lobed, generally pleated and twisted in bud; stamens 5, epipetalous; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers generally 2, each generally 2-ovuled, styles 1--2. Fruit: generally capsule. Seed: 1--4(6). Genera In Family: 55--60 genera, 1600--1700 species: warm temperate to tropics; some cultivated for food or as ornamental (Ipomoea). Note: Monophyletic only if Cuscutaceae included, as treated here. Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet, Ipomoea hederacea Jacq. [Ipomoea nil L., misappl.], Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr. (including Ipomoea mutabilis Ker Gawl.), Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth, Ipomoea triloba L., all included in TJM (1993), not naturalized. eFlora Treatment Author: Robert E. Preston, except as noted Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: MORNING-GLORY Habit: Annual, perennial herb from rhizome or caudex. Stem: trailing to high-climbing. Leaf: simple or palmately compound, petioled; blade cordate, lobed or not. Inflorescence: bracts 0. Flower: corolla generally +- funnel-shaped, not or barely lobed; style 1, stigma head-like or of 2--3 spheric lobes. Fruit: spheric; valves 2--4. Etymology: (Greek: worm-like) Note:Ipomoea lacunosa L. reported as urban weed from birdseed in Aptos, Santa Cruz Co. eFlora Treatment Author: Daniel F. Austin
Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr.
URBAN WEED Habit: Perennial herb. Leaf: blade generally 10--15 cm, entire to +- deeply 3-lobed, glabrous to strigose or canescent. Inflorescence: peduncles 1--10-flowered. Flower: sepals 14--20 mm, gradually tapered to slender, leaf-like tip, hairs near base 0 to +- 1 mm; corolla 5--7 cm, blue, in age +- rose. Ecology: Disturbed places; Elevation: +- 50 m. Bioregional Distribution: CCo, SnFrB, SCo; Distribution Outside California: probably native to southeastern United States, alien pantropical. Note: Cultivated as ornamental; evidently known in California only from urban places. Synonyms: Ipomoea acuminata (Vahl) Roem. & Schult., Ipomoea mutabilis Ker Gawl. Jepson eFlora Author: Daniel F. Austin Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Ipomoea hederacea Next taxon: Ipomoea purpurea
Citation for this treatment: Daniel F. Austin 2012, Ipomoea indica, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=29055, accessed on January 24, 2025.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2025, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on January 24, 2025.
Geographic subdivisions for Ipomoea indica:
CCo, SnFrB, SCo
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