Perennials. Stems trailing or twining. Leaf blades deltate-ovate or narrowly lance-ovate, 30–80 × 10–40 mm, base cordate to truncate, surfaces glabrous. Peduncles glabrous. Flowers: sepals not dotted with dark spots, elliptic, oblong, or orbiculate, 10–15 mm, outers shorter than inners, coriaceous, surfaces glabrous; corolla pink or white, throat purple or red inside, funnelform, 50–80 mm, limb 50–80 mm diam.

Phenology: Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat: Plains, prairies.
Elevation: 200–600 m.

Distribution

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Kans., Okla., Tex.

Discussion

Ipomoea shumardiana is known only from areas where I. leptophylla and I. pandurata are sympatric; the names I. longifolia and I. pandurata have been misapplied to plants of I. shumardiana.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

None.