Plants Profile for Ipomoea hederacea (ivyleaf morning-glory)

General Information
Symbol:	IPHE
Group:	Dicot
Family:	Convolvulaceae
Duration:	Annual
Growth Habit:	Forb/herb Vine
Native Status:	CAN I L48 I
Data Source and Documentation

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	Native		Introduced		Both		Absent/Unreported
	Native, No County Data		Introduced, No County Data		Both, No County Data

Native Status:

L48

NAV

CAN

SPM

Images

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Patrick J. Alexander. Usage Requirements.

©Billy Craft. James H. Miller and Karl V. Miller. 2005. Forest plants of the southeast and their wildlife uses. University of Georgia Press., Athens. Provided by University of Georgia Press. Scanned by Forestry Images. Usage Requirements.

Steve Hurst. Provided by ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. United States, MD, Takoma Park. Usage Requirements.

©Jim Stasz. Usage Requirements.

Carole Ritchie. Provided by ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. United States, LA, Sunset. Usage Requirements.

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 3: 45. Provided by Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

Synonyms

Symbol	Scientific Name
IPBA3	Ipomoea barbigera Sweet
IPDE2	Ipomoea desertorum House
IPHEI2	Ipomoea hederacea Jacq. var. integriuscula A. Gray
IPHI4	Ipomoea hirsutula auct. non Jacq. f.
IPNI2	Ipomoea nil auct. non (L.) Roth
PHBA5	Pharbitis barbigera (Sweet) G. Don
PHHE12	Pharbitis hederacea (Jacq.) Choisy

Classification

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Rank	Scientific Name and Common Name
Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Asteridae
Order	Solanales
Family	Convolvulaceae – Morning-glory family
Genus	Ipomoea L. – morning-glory
Species	Ipomoea hederacea Jacq. – ivyleaf morning-glory

Subordinate Taxa

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Legal Status

Noxious Weed Information
This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete noxious weed list for that location, or click here for a composite list of all Federal and State Noxious Weeds.
Arizona Ipomoea morning glory Prohibited noxious weed ¹
Arkansas Ipomoea morning glory Noxious weed
¹all species except Ipomoea carnea, Mexican bush morning glory, I. triloba, three-lobed morning glory, and I. arborescens, morning glory tree

U.S. Weed Information
Ipomoea Ipomoea hederacea Mexican morningglory entireleaf morningglory ivyleaf morningglory This plant and the related entity italicized and indented above can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.
STATE	Assorted authors. State noxious weed lists for 46 states. State agriculture or natural resource departments.
KY	Haragan, P.D.. 1991. Weeds of Kentucky and adjacent states: a field guide. The University Press of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky.
N'EAST	Uva, R.H., J.C. Neal,and J.M. DiTomaso. 1997. Weeds of the Northeast. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York.
NE&GP	Stubbendieck, J., G.Y. Friisoe,and M.R. Bolick. 1994. Weeds of Nebraska and the Great Plains. Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Lincoln, Nebraska.
SWSS	Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada. CD-ROM. Southern Weed Science Society. Champaign, Illinois.
WSWS	Whitson, T.D. (ed.) et al.. 1996. Weeds of the West. Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with Cooperative Extension Services, University of Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming.

Wetland Status

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Top Level Regions
Caribbean	FACU

North America
Arid West	FACU
Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain	FACU
Eastern Mountains and Piedmont	FACU
Great Plains	FAC
Midwest	FAC
Northcentral & Northeast	FAC
Western Mountains, Valleys, and Coast	FACU