{"id":643,"date":"2006-09-22T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/09\/22\/ivyleaf-morning-glory\/"},"modified":"2008-03-30T09:39:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T16:39:29","slug":"ivyleaf-morning-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/09\/22\/ivyleaf-morning-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivyleaf Morning-glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ivyleaf Morning-glory (Ipomoea hederacea)<\/a> blooms in the canyons, washes, and riparian areas here in southern Arizona in the late summer and early fall.<\/p>\n

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Ivyleaf Morning-glory flowers are only open in the morning, and they can be blue, purple, magenta, or white in color. Most of the Ivyleaf Morning-glory flowers here in Tucson are a beautiful sky blue color with a yellowish white throat. The flowers are surrounded by five hairy sepals.<\/p>\n

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Ivyleaf Morning-glory leaves are usually three-lobed, but they are quite variable and can also be five-lobed or heart-shaped, even on the same plant. The leaves and stems of Ivyleaf Morning-glories are covered in velvety hairs, which distinguishes them from the similar Canyon Morning-glory (Ipomoea barbatisepala)<\/a>, which has hairless leaves and stems.<\/p>\n

For some reason, all Ipomoea<\/em> species here in Arizona, both native and non-native, have been declared prohibited noxious weeds. Ivyleaf Morning-glory is one Ipomoea<\/em> species definitely deserving of this classification because this weed is not native to Arizona and it is very invasive. In the habitat that it shares with our native Canyon Morning-glory, rampant Ivyleaf Morning-glory unfortunately appears to be crowding it out. For such a nasty weed though, Ivyleaf Morning-glory is quite beautiful, but I’d really much rather see our native Morning-glories in its place.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong> Some Convolvulaceae experts believe that Ivyleaf Morning-glory is actually native to this part of Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ivyleaf Morning-glory (Ipomoea hederacea) blooms in the canyons, washes, and riparian areas here in southern Arizona in the late summer and early fall. Ivyleaf Morning-glory flowers are only open in the morning, and they can be blue, purple, magenta, or white in color. Most of the Ivyleaf Morning-glory flowers here in Tucson are a beautiful… Read More → <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-wild-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}