Smallflower Morningglory

Jacquemontia tamnifolia (L.) Griseb.

Convolvulaceae (Morningglory Family)

▲ seedling

▲ mature plant

▲leaf

▲▼ flowers

▲fruit

 

Smallflower Morningglory: 

      has heart-shaped, fuzzy leaves with indented veins that curve to parallel outer leaf margins

      flowers are very tiny, lavender blue and held in dense, hairy clusters in axils of leaves

      a problem more in southern row crops than in Missouri, but occasionally found in southeast Missouri row crops