Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth
Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth
Family: Convolvulaceae
Common morning-glory
Local name (Kannada):
Habit: Climber
Distribution:
Native of Tropical America.
Use: Ornamental
Description:
Annual twiners; stems slender and herbaceous; pilose hirsute with spreading trichomes. Leaves simple, alternate, broadly ovate to cordate, entire or trilobate. Inflorescences of 1-5 flowered cymose clusters. Corolla blue, purple, pink, or with stripes of these colors on a white background, the stripes occasionally broken, throat white, 3-5 cm long. Fruits capsular, depressed-globose, 10 mm long; seeds black.