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Photographer: Kitty Kohout
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Family Convolvulaceae
Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth
common morning-glory, tall morning-glory
Ipomoea: from Greek ips, "a worm," and homoios, "like," thus "like a worm," referring to the twining habit of the plant's growth
purpurea: from Greek for "purple"
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | twining annual, up to 15' long, herbaceous vine with hairy stems |
| Flower: | blue to purple, 5-parted, 1 1/2"-2 1/3" long, funnel-shaped; blooms June-Sept. |
| Leaf: | almost always un-lobed and rounded, leaf stalk about the same length as the flower stalk  |
| Habitat: | disturbed areas |
| (Glossary) |
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