Small Red Morning Glory

Description:

The leaves are alternate. Leaves can reach 9cm in length (3.5inches). Leaves can be as wide as 5.5 cm (2inches). Each leaf usually has a few very shallow basal lobes and some few teeth, sometimes with distinct lobes and sometimes almost entire. The flowers have 5 Regular Parts and are up to 3cm long (1 inches). They are red. Blooms first appear in late summer and continue into mid fall. The corolla a tube, abruptly flaring. Pistil and stamens extending beyond corolla.

Habitat:

In the U. S. from Texas and Florida north to Michigan and Massachusetts. Fields, borders and disturbed areas. This one was photographed at Brick Pond Park in North Augusta (Aiken County), SC.

Notes:

Per the attached reference, this may/may not be a native plant. "Red morning glory grows in disturbed sites along roads, stream banks, fence rows, old fields, thickets and other waste areas. It can be a bothersome weed in gardens. If both species are recognized, Ipomoea coccinea is believed to be native to eastern North America from New York, west to Kansas, and south to Florida and eastern Texas, whereas Ipomoea hederifolia has been introduced from tropical America and occurs in the U.S. mainly across the South from New Mexico to Florida, with just a few northern outliers. If only I. coccinea is to be recognized, its range includes that of both, and it is considered native to the eastern U.S."