Pitted Morningglory

Ipomoea lacunosa L.

Convolvulaceae (Morningglory Family)

▲ ▼ seedlings and young plant

▲ ▼ trailing stems with purple-edged leaves

▲ three-lobed leaves on trailing stems

▲ ▼ small white flowers

▲ ▼ colonies along rocks along Table Rock Lake

▲ maturing fruit capsules

Pitted Morningglory:

·        a summer-annual morningglory with heart-shaped to ivy-shaped leaves, usually with a purplish tinge to leaf margins

·        leaves are less hairy than

·        flowers are small and white—only about 1” diameter—much smaller than other morningglories, except for red morningglory or cypress vine

·        round seed pods (about ½” diameter)

·        found in drier soils