Ipomoea pandurata
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photos, Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Ipomoea pandurata |
| Common name: | wild potato vine |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Convolvulaceae |
| Growth type: | vine |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | to 10' |
| Foliage: | leaves entire, heart shaped |
| Flower: | large, 3" white flowers with purple inside the flower tube |
| Flowering time: | early July to October |
| Habitat: | open, dry and sandy ground of railroad sides, woods and shaded edges, old fields |
| Range in New Jersey: | statewide outside the central Pine barrens |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | roasted roots are edible, related to the sweet potato |