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Ipomoea costellata

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Torrey

Hardiness Zone

Min 15C

Common Names

• Crestrib Morning-glory

Geographical Habitats

• Guatemala
• Mexico
• Arizona
• New Mexico
• Texas - USA

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• hedgerows
• wooded slope

Flowering Times

• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Sep

Herbaceous glabrous or minutely hirsute annual twining vine with erect, procumbent or climbing stems. 7-9 parted leaves. 1-3 flowered inflorescence. Pink or purple flowers with white throat, glabrous sepals with crest-like keels, rose-purple corolla to 10mm long with 5 mucronate lobes. Capsule to 5mm diameter

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• USDA
• FOSEUS
• USNH
• Kew