Ipomoea hederacea

Ivy morning-glory, Ivy Morning-Glory

Family: Convolvulaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Ivy morning-glory is a naturalized annual found in southern California's Central Valley and Coastal regions in fields, orchards, and disturbed places at elevations around 250 meters. Flowering from summer to fall, this plant produces light blue flowers with white or pale yellow inner tubes, 2 to 6 centimeters long. Growing with slender stems, it reaches heights of 30 to 60 centimeters with sprawling or climbing habit. Its leaves are 3 to 8 centimeters wide, varying from entire to deeply 3 to 5-lobed, with sparse strigose hairs covering the blade. The flower sepals are distinctive, 16 to 25 millimeters long with abruptly narrowed leaf-like tips and hairy bases 2 to 6 millimeters long.

Habitat: Fields, orchards, disturbed places

Elevation: 250 m

Bioregions: s CA-FP

California counties: Kern, Tulare, Riverside, Yolo, Fresno

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.