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Ipomoea lobata

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Cervantes ex La Llave & Lexarza) Thellung

Propagation

S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Hardiness Zone

Min10C

Common Names

• Bandera Espanola
• Spanish Flag
• Star-glory

Geographical Habitats

• SW. Mexico

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• Nov (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

Annual or perennial herbaceous glabrous twiner or creeper with glabrous stems. 3-lobed mucronate leaves glabrous & roughish above, villous below to 120mm x 100mm. Axillary cymes or racemes with bracteoles to 2mm of 25mm red & yellow flowers then white in a one-sided spike or raceme, glabrous or pilose sepals to 3.5mm x 2mm with trminal awn to 4mm long, curved corolla to 25mm long with 5 small tooth-like lobes. Glabrous capsule 7mm diameter.

Naturalised many places

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• RHS A-Z
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• USNH
• Botanicus
• Kew
• KB