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Ipomoea hederifolia |
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| | Rambling across other plants in Pennsylvania... |
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| | ...and up a fence in Texas |
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| Common name |
ivy-leaf morning glory |
| Family |
convolvulaceae |
| Life cycle |
annual |
| Flowers |
red (summer) |
| Size |
vine to 10 ft |
| Light |
sun |
From seed  |
scarify, germinate warm; seed is long-viable
detailed seed-starting info below
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| Seed ripens | mid-October |
Carmine-red tubular flowers and attractive foliage. Supposed to attract hummingbirds. In these pictures, you see ours climbing through and up the now-defunct bench in the side garden, and sprawling out into adjacent shrubs. I gambled on some self-seeding so I wouldn't have to start seed indoors the year after - and got lucky. Although the show probably started a bit later without the head start. I grew this as Ipomoea coccinea, but later learned its proper identity - the seedpods of I. coccinea droop downward as they ripen, whereas I. hederifolia keeps them upright.
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| | Shiny lipstick-red buds |
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: back fence border Seed for this plant is included on my seed trade list One or more images of this plant are included in my stock photo catalog About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Ipomoea hederifolia
- Seed from '04/'05 HPS/MAG exchange. Lightly sandpapered seeds. Baggy 75F (25%G, 2-3d). Successively more aggressive nicking led to complete germination; some required taking an actual chip out of the seed coat.
- June 4: 10 seeds direct-sowed, after knife-nicking. June 11: 9G
- Seed from '07 garden. Sandpapered; baggy 75F (46%G, 1-16d)
- Same seed as above. Sandpapered; baggy 70F (43%G, 3-10d)
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