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Ipomoea cordatotriloba
Tievine
Coastal Morning Glory
Cotton Morning Glory
Florida native
This morning glory can be found mostly in disturbed sites throughout Florida. The range extends mainly throughout the southeastern coastal plain from North Carolina to Texas and Arkansas.
This pubescent herbaceous perennial vine can be trailing or climbing. Leaves are alternate and may be entire but are most often deeply tri-lobed. One to several flowers appear at the ends of peduncles growing from the leaf axils. Flowers have a funnelform corolla that is usually lavender - occassionally white - and often with a darker throat. The sepals are oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate and are nearly equal in length and hairy. The stigma is two-lobed. Fruit is a spherical capsule with two cells, each cell containing two blackish seeds.
Ipomoea cordatotriloba is closely related to I. lacunosa, which has a mostly more northern range although the distribution of the two species does overlap.
Ipomoea cordatotriloba is a member of the Convolvulaceae - Morning-glory family.
Other species of the Ipomoea genus in the Wild Florida Photo database:
Ipomoea alba - MOONFLOWER
Ipomoea cairica - MILE A MINUTE VINE
Ipomoea hederacea - IVYLEAF MORNING-GLORY
Ipomoea hederifolia - SCARLETCREEPER
Ipomoea imperati - BEACH MORNING-GLORY
Ipomoea indica - OCEANBLUE MORNING-GLORY
Ipomoea lacunosa - WHITESTAR
Ipomoea pandurata - MAN-OF-THE-EARTH
Ipomoea pes-caprae var. brasiliensis - RAILROAD VINE
Ipomoea quamoclit - CYPRESSVINE
Ipomoea sagittata - SALTMARSH MORNING-GLORY
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (Institute for Systemic Botany) profile for this species
USDA Plant Profile for this species
Date record last modified: Jul 06, 2022
