I don't normally venture onto this part of our property early in the morning, so I didn't realize we had any Wild Potato Vine (Ipomoea pandurata) until my husband mentioned it.
It was still, as they say, o'dark thirty.
I knew the common name of the flower, and that it was a type of native morning glory, but that was about it. I researched it and learned several things:
The root can reach the size of a man's leg and weigh over 30 pounds.
Pandurate means fiddle-shaped. (The leaves can also be heart-shaped, as in this picture.)
Sweet potatoes are a type of morning glory.
Moquitoes are really, really bad in this area early in the morning.
Yeah, it sure looks like our Morning Glorys, which I hear do grow like weeds in some environments. Heck, they pretty well do that here. They have a nasty little cousin that we call bindweed that nothing seems to discourage.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's just me but Blogger has not been allowing comments today. I thought that potato vines were invasive, at least according to my backyard. But nothing is as bad as the wisteria.
ReplyDeleteI like the Jasmine picture yesterday.
ReplyDeleteI have a place for my pictures that my Dad made for me! You're on it. Come see. I hope you like it.
--Thomas
[transcribed by his dad, aka MM]
I think they like sandy or dry soil, which we don't have too much of around here... so I'm not too worried about them taking over. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Thomas! Congratulations on your new blog. Your drawings are very good!
Great photo!
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