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 Leaves Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Fruit Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | |
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Origin:
Introduced
Life Cycle:
Annual Similar Species: Ipomoea purpurea
General Desc:
Twining vine with mostly hairy stems and leaves and large funnel-shaped white to blue to purple flowers.
Identification notes: Stem slender, twining, climbing and hairy; leaves broad and 3-lobed; sepals long and becoming narrow; many flowers, 1 to 3 per leaf axil, short-stalked usually blue or purple, sometimes white.
Height:
Up to 6 feet or more
Habitat Description: Disturbed sites, roadsides.
Plant Communities:
Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 3000 - 6000 feet
Color:
White to pale blue or purple
Shape:
Regular not in clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
Jun - Sep
Description:
1 to 3 per leaf axil, short-stalked, usually blue or purple, sometimes white, showy, radially symmetric, funnel-shaped or somewhat trumpet-shaped flowers.
Leaf Color:
Dark green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Other
Leaf Margin:
Lobed
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Stems slender, mostly hairy. Leaves have hair on both sides, heart-shaped or with 3-pointed lobes, up to 3 inches by 3 inches, on stems up to 5 inches long.
Fruit Color: Black
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Depressed round capsule, smooth, 3/4 inch.
Seed Notes: Black with patches of gray hairs.
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