Ipomoea triloba

Ipomoea triloba

Ipomoea triloba is a species of the genus of morning glories (Ipomoea ) from the family of wind plants ( Convolvulaceae ). The species is widespread in America and the West Indies and is also wild in the tropical regions of the Old World before.

Description

Ipomoea triloba is a lean, herbaceous climbing plant that is sparsely hairy to densely and can be glabrous. The leaves are long-petiolate, the leaf blade is small, usually only 3 to 5 cm long, but often longer. The base is heart-shaped, deeply lobed leaf area usually three to five times. The lobes are pointed or tapered and entire.

The inflorescences consist of one to several flowers. The inflorescence stems are usually longer than the petioles. The flower stems are slender, 1-2 cm long. The sepals are oblong or oval, 5-6 mm long, acute or acuminate and often mucronate. The outside is hairy tomentose usually long and ciliated. The crown is pink or pale violet color, the interior of the throat is dark red or dark purple. The crown is usually 2.5 to 3.5 cm (rarely only 1.5 cm) long, the coronary band is 1 to 2 cm or more wide.

The fruits are two-chamber capsules hairy or hairless and can be measured about 7 mm in diameter. The seeds are smooth.

Dissemination

The type is in the southern U.S., Mexico, British Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Panama, and South America to Argentina, as well as the West Indies before and is naturalized in the tropics of the Old World. It occurs in moist to wet thickets and forest edges, hedges or as a weed on cultivated land. It grows at altitudes below 1500 m and is found abundantly in low altitudes.