Ipomoea pandurata
| Habit | vine-climber
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| Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
| Exposure: | ☼ | sun |
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| Features: | ✓ | flowers |
| Flower features: | ❀ | pink, single, double |
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Ipomoea pandurata the Wild Potato Vine, Big-rooted Morning Glory or Man-of-the-Earth is a species of herbaceous perennial vine. Another common name is "manroot", but that typically refers to the quite unrelated gourd genus Marah.
It is rarely cultivated but grows wild in North America appearing along roadsides, in fields and along fence rows. It sustains itself over the winter with a tuberous root similar to its better known relative, the Sweet Potato (I. batatas).
Read about Ipomoea pandurata in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Ipomoea pandurata, G. F. W. Mey. Man-of-the-earth. Wild Potato-vine. St. 2-12 ft. long: root very long and large (10-20 pounds): lvs. 2-4 in. long, long- petioled, usually cordate and entire, occasionally angulate, fiddle-shape or hastately 3-lobed: peduncles 1-5-fld., commonly a little longer than the petioles; corolla 2-4 in. wide, broadly funnelform with pointed lobes, white with a dark purple throat. May-Sept. Dry soils, Canada to Fla., west to Ont. and Texas.—In some places this species is a very troublesome weed, which is almost impossible to exterminate because of its long tuberous roots. It can easily be kept within bounds in the garden with a little care, and makes a very desirable plant for covering an old dead stump or back fence. The chief merit of I. pandurata as a garden plant is its hardiness; hence it is often sold as the "hardy" or "perennial moonflower." If well mulched the roots will stand 26° below zero. There is a double-fld. form. It is sometimes escaped in cult, grounds.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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