Ipomoea horsfalliae

Common Name: Cardinal Creeper

Family: Convolvulaceae

Country of Origin: West Indies

Description: Habit: A large, glabrous twiner. Stems terete, the adult parts woody, lenticellate. Leaves orbicular in outline, 5- 20 by 5-20 cm, deeply palmately lobed to beyond the middle or to the base into 3-5 segments; middle segment mostly much larger than the lateral ones, ovate, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, mostly attenuate towards both ends, acuminate at the apex with acute or obtusish, mucronulate point; lateral segments ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate; margins of segments slightly crisped, entire or coarsely dentate to crenate; petiole shorter than the blade, 2½- 13 cm. Inflorescences axillary, 8-30 cm long, few- to several-flowered; peduncle 1½- 14 cm, widely cymosely branched. Pedicels as long as or longer than the sepals, 8- 15 mm. Flowers: Sepals subequal or the outer ones slightly shorter, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, obtuse, concave, 7-10 mm long, green at the base, for the rest red-purple or purplish black. Corolla red or red-purple, salver-shaped, the tube slightly angular, somewhat narrowed to the base, ca 4 cm long, ca 1 cm diam.; limb ca 4--4½ cm diam., 5-lobed with rounded lobes. Stamens and style exserted; filaments pale purple, densely villous at the base; style white, stigma dark purple, ovary glabrous. Capsules rarely formed. ³

USDA Zone: 9a-11

Accession #: 198500666

Accession Date: 1985-12-31

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1215

Quantity: 1

Source: Unknown

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: euasterid I

Order: Solanales

Family: Convolvulaceae

SubFamily: Convolvuloideae

Tribe: Ipomoeeae