Mile-A-Minute Vine is an extremely fast growing, creeping or twining and climbing vine that has naturalized in many tropical and sub tropical areas of the world. The leaves of Ipomoea cairica are hand-shaped, 5-7 lobed and attached to a smooth stem. The large 2 1/2" - 3 1/2" flowers are lavender to pale pink in color with a deeper pink-purple center. The fruit of I. cairica is a round green capsule, turning brown at maturity and containing hairy, brown to black seeds.
This perennial morning glory is in wide use as a garden ornamental but is usually considered an invasive weed.
Ipomoea pes-caprae is found along tropical and subtropical beaches worldwide but here in the United States it is only found on dunes and beaches in the southern part of the country from Georgia, south along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts to Texas and Mexico, and is prevalent throughout the Florida peninsula where it is a native. This fast growing, rambling vine only attains heights of about three inches, but the length can reach anywhere from 30 feet to 100 feet! Beach Morning Glory is heat, salt and wind resistant making it a great choice for beachfront properties where it will colonize areas above the high tide lines. It has long, thick tap roots up to 10 feet in length and 2 inches in diameter and the vine roots at the nodes all along the freely branching stems making it ideal for dune stabilization and beach restoration. It forms a thick ground cover and can be pruned to keep in bounds. This vine thrives and grows vigorously in poor soil conditions and is highly drought tolerant once established.
The Blue Dawnflower is one of several Morning Glory species native here in Florida. Distributed throughout most of the peninsula, it is found in open sunny sites, along roadsides, and in old fields and disturbed areas where it quickly rambles over weedy vegetation and is capable of forming a dense ground cover. The showy blue to purplish-blue flowers are said to resemble the color of the Caribbean Sea.
The Double Blue Picotee is an amazing JMG .. you never really know what you're going to get since it throws some really awesome mutants from time to time.
Evening Glory has become one of my favorite plants for its large, fragrant nocturnal flowers. Ipomoea alba seeds germinate quickly and before you know it you have this wonderful vine gracing your garden with those gorgeous white blooms! In late May I sowed a packet of seeds beneath a small tree next to our deck. By the end of June the vine was climbing all over the tree, and by July 1st it was covered in blooms and has been a robust bloomer all summer! It's a great choice for the garden or as a container plant climbing up a trellis. It should definitely be planted in a location where it can be seen in the evening and at night ... for instance by a back porch, or near the front door, or a walkway where your guests will surely notice this beauty! Always an attention getter, "Evening Glory" is a wonderful vine to incorporate into one's garden!
They don't call this Tall Morning Glory for nothing. This one grew 12' and would have grown more if I had not cut it back. A beautiful flower but invasive.
There is no such thing as a few ...I let one grow in the garden a couple years ago because of the beautiful blue color and have been pulling them ever since .
This has been determined to be the same as Ipomoea indica by Daniel F. Austin , BUT, John Andrew MacDonald has determined that Ipomoea silvicola deserves distinct species status because the stigma shows a different structure than Ipomoea indica,
I prefer the more detailed approach because the stigma structure has been accepted by most Ipomoea taxonomic experts as being significant in determining the rank of different species AND DNA studies have supported the stigma structural details as being significant.
Ipomoea nil is a New World species and was growing in South America long before it was ever brought to Japan , i.e., according to the pollen dna fossil records.
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