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How to Grow
Water
Medium
Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.
Sunlight
Partial Shade - Full Sun
~
3-6 hours of sun per day, with protection from intense mid-day sun
Characteristics
Bloom Time
Jun, Jul, Aug
Plant Type
Climbers, Vine, Annual, Twining annual herb, stems pilose
Lifespan
Annual
Flower
2" showy flowers (white, pink, crimson, purple, blue) open in the morning and last a few hours; flowers mid-summer to fall, Flowers solitary or in few-flowered cymes; peduncle up to 12 cm. long; pedicels 1.3–2.5 cm. long.
Fruit
Globoid seed capsule 1/3" wide dark wedge-shaped seeds., Capsule subglobose, 9 – 11 mm, glabrous, 6-seeded; seeds 5 mm long, appearing glabrous but minutely tomentellous under a microscope
Benefits
Attracts
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Bees
Pollinators
Specialized Bees
Taxonomy
Order
Solanales
Family
Convolvulaceae
Genus
Ipomoea
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