Ipomoea purpurea

Common morning-glory

Family: Convolvulaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Common morning-glory is a naturalized annual found in the central coastal, southern coastal, and Sacramento Valley regions in disturbed places, fields, and orchards at elevations below 300 meters. Flowering from unspecified months, this plant produces purple, blue, pink, or white flowers 4 to 6 centimeters long with a striking, wide-mouthed trumpet shape. Growing with climbing or spreading stems, it extends across disturbed ground with broad, heart-shaped leaves. Its leaves are 7 to 12 centimeters wide, cordate in shape, and can be entire or divided into 3 to 5 lobes, with a slightly hairy surface. The flowers emerge from peduncles that can bear 1 to 5 blossoms, each with lance-oblong sepals 12 to 16 millimeters long.

Habitat: Disturbed or waste places, fields, orchards

Elevation: < 300 m

Bioregions: ScV, CCo, SCo

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