Wild Potato Vine

(Ipomoea pandurata)

 

Color Photograph: Susan Ladd Miller, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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

Wild Potato Vine (Ipomoea pandurata)

Identification: A vine. Flower large (2 to 3 inches in diameter) petunialike with 5 petals fused into a trumpet-shaped corolla. Interior of flower red-purple with pink stripes radiating from the center. Leaves heart-shaped, pointed at the apex.

Distribution: Southern Canada southward to Florida and Texas. Also occurs in the southern Plains States.

Habitat: Wild Potato Vine is found on dry soils, particularly along roadsides and in fields.

Flowering period: June to September.

Wild Potato Vine (Ipomoea pandurata)

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Small White Morning Glory (Ipomoea lacunosa)

 

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