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Morning glory flower, Ipomoea nil An unopened spiral bud of a morning glory flower, Ipomoea purpurea 'Blue Star', a cultivar of Ipomoea tricolor photographed in Haverhill, Massachusetts Morning glory flower (Ipomoea purpurea) Morning glory (also written as morning-glory [1]) is the common name for over 1,000 species of flowering plants in the ...
English: Botanical illustration from the book "Morning Glory Flowers", originally published in Japan under the title "朝顔三十六花撰" in 1854. It's widely considered one of the best books on morning glories published in Japan of that era, and reflected the "morning glory mania" that captured the people of Edo (present-day Tokyo) at that time.
Like all morning glories, the plant entwines itself around structures, growing to a height of 2–3 m (6 ft 7 in – 9 ft 10 in) tall. The leaves are heart-shaped and the stems are covered with brown hairs. The flowers are trumpet-shaped, predominantly blue to purple or white, and 3–6 cm (1.2–2.4 in) in diameter. [5]
They grow up to be about 50–100 mm (2–4 in) long and about half as wide. The vines can reach 3 m (10 ft) or more in length. The flowers are dull red with an orange throat. Red morning glory flowers are borne in clusters of a half dozen. The species name coccinea is Latin for "scarlet", and refers to the color of the flowers.
Ipomoea alba, known in English as tropical white morning glory, moonflower or moonvine, is a species of night-blooming morning glory, native to tropical and subtropical regions of North and South America, from Argentina to northern Mexico, Arizona, Florida [3] and the West Indies. [4]
The flowers are trumpet-shaped, 4–9 cm (2–4 in) in diameter, most commonly blue with a white to golden yellow centre. I. tricolor and many rarer species of morning glory, contain ergoline alkaloids, predominantly ergine. Some supermarkets have stopped carrying I. tricolor seeds because of this.