Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

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Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Convolvulaceae
Ipomoea macrorhiza

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Convolvulaceae
Ipomoea macrorhiza

SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Convolvulaceae
158-07-010
Ipomoea macrorhiza

Common Name:
Indian-midden Morning Glory, Manroot

Vine Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare (GA Special Concern, NC Watch List, SC Rare)
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it in hammocks, shell middens, dry sands, disturbed maritime areas, per Weakley's Flora



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...Dry

Leaves:
Simple
Alternate

Flower:
Summer
White
5-merous or rarely 4-merous
5-lobed calyx
campanulate corolla
5 included stamens
Superior ovary

Fruit:
Summer
Capsule

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p362
Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p207




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February

 

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Month Unknown

 

"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet ... even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." — Matthew 6:28-29