Greetings gardeners-
I have a vine which simply showed up and started to grow aggressively. It even began strangling other plants. My estimate is that it grew 8 feet in two weeks! I live in coastal Southern California.
It looks like morning glory flowers, but the leaves do not, however I'm only familiar with the standard species.
Please take a look here:
Thanks warren
Exactly what is your "standard species" of "morning glory"?
The plant in the picture is Ipomoea purpurea, the "common morning glory" widespread throughout much of the US.
That is a morning glory, have many of them starting to grow in my yard. Kirsten in Ohio
Not so.
Bindweed is the common name for Convolvulus arvensis not Ipomoea.
There are three kinds of Convolvulus or Bindweed in our native flora: the Field, Hedge, and the Sea Convolvulus. We have also many southern species growing in our gardens, chief among which are the handsome Morning Glory (Ipomea purpurea Linn.), C. purpureus, a native of Asia, with large purple flowers, and the pretty little annual, C. minor, a native of southern Europe, its cheerful flowers a combination of blue, yellow and white.
Bindweed is convolvulus, not ipomoea. Close, but not the same at all.
Good for you, Steverino.
The only problem is that none of that is relevant to the original question that was asked by Warren.
Also the genera Convolvulus and Ipomoea are NOT synonymous.
What I've got looks similar to the picture posted. They are mostly shades of violet to purple, some bluer, some pink. All have the white throat and violet star. Leaves are heart-shaped as shown. They were originally planted as garden flowers (40 or so years ago) and have gone wild. We've planted various seed packets over the years, I always assumed that's how we got the pink ones. When I was young we only had purple. They are, or act as, annuals (zone 5-6).
A few years ago we started getting white flowers with arrowhead shaped leaves, which I now know is bindweed. They may have come in a wildflower mix, don't know.
Janine
I have a perennial morning glory and it is invasive if I allow it to be. Here is a photo of it, but the photo shows the flower color to be purple, while the one I have is no different other than being a deeper true blue than 'Heavenly Blue' the annual.
That hedge and arch are gorgeous! I wish I could get my wall to fill in like that. I've just started trimming the tops the last few days trying to get the bottom to fill in more.
Mine have lots of seeds, every flower becomes a seed pod. If you leave dirt in a pot for a few days, you get morning glory sprouts. I have a skinny, delicate little indoor morning glory growing in my basement office window. It sprouted in a houseplant pot from a bag of potting soil that had apparently been left outside.
Janine
Thanks All for your input warren
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