Hi this is growing in my sister -in-laws yard. It looks like one that I also found in my yard but my neighbors killed it with weed killer so I never got to see the blooms. The leaves look kinda like a morning glory but the flowers are small.
This message was edited Sep 21, 2006 10:03 AM
Lovely, isn't it? But it looks like a form of what we call around here "bindweed," which is why the neighbors were trying to get rid of it. Look it up on Google and see.
I'll take a gander and say maybe ipomea lacunosa?
It looks similar in shape and leaves, but not colors. I thought maybe hederacea but the leaves are tri-leafed.
Compare here:
http://www.biology.lsu.edu/webfac/lurbatsch/Ipomoea.html
top right photo.
Ron will come along and set us all straight :D
LOL!
~Sunny
marieortiz - Looks like Sunny is catching on quick...I agree with her ID...Ipomoea lacunosa...but,out of curiosity...Are you able to see if the anthers are pigmented a reddish-lilac color(?)...
Ron
I will try and check this weekend. Thanks for the help. I know everyone else is saying it is a weed but it sure did look pretty with all those little pink flowers blooming.
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Ron said:marieortiz - Looks like Sunny is catching on quick...I agree with her ID...Ipomoea lacunosa...but,out of curiosity...Are you able to see if the anthers are pigmented a reddish-lilac color(?)...}
Ron, You keep on teaching like this pretty soon you will have some trainees to help you out a bit and save you from getting carpal tunnel. :)
gardener2005 -
"...pretty soon you will have some trainees to help you out a bit and save you from getting carpal tunnel..."
I have a Dream(!)...
LOL! Too funny ya'll. I am cautiously optimistic about the ID - but none of the references that I found showed any color other than white. So I'm not sure if the flower is white w/pinkish tints from the anthers, or if possibly it does appear in other colors which I simply didn't happen upon.
Thanks to all of you who have displayed your own flowers, and the extensive commentary by Ron that have helped me learn a bit more about these lovely plants.
~Sunny
These are definetly a bright pink.
I don't know if it's ipomoea lacunosa or not. Doesn't that grow in more moist soil? You live in Arizona, right? That's pretty dry. Where in the yard is it growing?
Yes I am in Arizona aka The Furnace blast. It showed up in her yard which happens to be desert landscape.
