View source for Ipomoea tricolor

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|accepted_name=Ipomoea tricolor
|accepted_authority=Cavanilles
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Icon.
|place=3: 5, plate 208. 1795
|year=1795
}}
|common_names=Heavenly blue morning glory
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
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|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Ipomoea;Ipomoea tricolor
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Convolvulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ipomoea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ipomoea tricolor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals.</b> Stems twining. <b>Leaf</b> blades ± cordate, 60–100 × 25–130 mm, base cordate, surfaces glabrous. <b>Peduncles</b> glabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals lance-ovate, triangular, or oblong-triangular, (4–)6–7 mm, coriaceous, margins scarious, apex acute, abaxial surface muriculate, glabrous; corolla usually blue to deep blue, sometimes white, tube white outside, pale yellow inside, funnelform, 35–60 mm, limb 50–90 mm diam.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Oct–Dec.
|habitat=Abandoned plantings, thickets.
|elevation=20–1900 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ariz.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Pa.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Ipomoea tricolor is native in Mexico and has long been cultivated in North America.</p><!--
--><p>The name Ipomoea violacea has been misapplied to plants of I. tricolor.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Ipomoea tricolor
|authority=Cavanilles
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Convolvulaceae
|phenology=Flowering Oct–Dec.
|habitat=Abandoned plantings, thickets.
|elevation=20–1900 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ariz.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Pa.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Icon.
|publication year=1795
|special status=Weedy;Introduced
|source xml=
|genus=Ipomoea
|species=Ipomoea tricolor
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