Small Red Morning Glory

(Ipomoea coccinea)

 

Color Photograph: © by and courtesy of Larry Allain, USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

 

Small Red Morning Glory (Ipomoea coccinea)

Identification: A vine, usually twining on other plants. Flower elongate, petunialike with 5 petals fused into a trumpet shaped flower. Flower bright red with a yellow center. Leaves heart-shaped with pointed apices.

Distribution: Iowa and Michigan in the west to southern New England in the east southward to Texas and Florida.

Habitat: Small Red Morning Glory is found in a variety of disturbed habitats such as fields, hedges, and roadsides.

Flowering period: August to October.

Small Red Morning Glory (Ipomoea coccinea)

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The bright red flowers readily identify this species.

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