Morning Glory

 

Morning Glories that have escaped cultivation often look like this.

This color pattern in cultivation is called 'Grandpa Otts'.

The issue with your basic morning glory is that they produce a lot of seeds and can get out of hand very quickly.

 

Common Name: Morning Glory

 

Other Common Names: Common Morning Glory, Tall Morning-Glory, Purple Morning Glory

 

Botanical Family: Convolvulaceae (The Bindweed Family)

 

Botanical Latin Name: Ipomoea purpurea

 

Description & Habitat:  Aside from being known as a garden staple for its flowers available in a variety of cultivars for color and size, this plant is native to Mexico and Central America. Morning Glories are named thus because their flowers open early in the morning and often fade by noon, additionally their family is commonly called the ‘Bindweed’ family because they often entwine other plants as they grow up their stems. Individual vines can be almost ten feet long. In general Morning Glories are considered a noxious weed because of their high potential to become invasive and difficulties in eliminating them. Visually speaking, this plant will have rounded heart-shaped leaves and the stems are covered with brown hairs. The flowers are roughly corolla or trumpet shaped and generally are blue to purple or white in color. Bicolor varieties exist as do red (Scarlett O’ Hara) and yellow (Yellow Obscure) varieties. Generally this plant can be found in fields, in the yards of old residential properties and in disturbed patches of soil. It may also appear by the roadside, in pastures and other places that humans have cultivated gardens.

 

 

When & What to Harvest: Morning glory foliage and flower are not edible, and thus far I can find no credible publication that indicates it is. However it is noted that the seeds contain a hallucinogenic compound called LSA which is said to be similar in effect to LSD.

 

Poisonous Lookalikes: None known.

 

Related Edible Species: Sweet Potato Vine and Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas)

 

Recipe: Not applicable.

 

Additional Information: (If applicable)

 

 

With all that garden goodness covered this is the part of the blog where I have to advertise for the Fayetteville City Market. Now I know you readers probably don’t much like advertisements, but my booth at the City Market helps to cover the costs of running the test garden and literally maintains the Research & Development budget that is used to bring you the information that has made up the backbone of this blog.  In addition to being able to process card payments we now take CashApp payments so your payment options for my product have tripled. With that said; if you want to get some GMO-free, Organic fruit, herbs, flowers and perennials, come on down to the Fayetteville City Market on 325 Maxwell Street in downtown Fayetteville between the hours of 9:00 am and 1:00 pm on Saturdays. Even in bad weather the market goes on though you might have to look for me under the ‘arches’ of the Transportation Museum’s front entryway.

 

 

For those of you wondering what plants are going to be at the market next weekend here is the list.

 

Soil Amendment Products (New!)

Live Mushroom Compost – 3 Gallon Bag

Live Mushroom Compost – 1 Gallon Bag

 

 

Garden Plants

Cutleaf Coneflower, Large

Cutleaf Coneflower, Medium

Spanish Bayonet

Marigold, Naughty Marietta – Yellow

Marigold, Naughty Marietta – Orange

Madagascar Periwinkle, Blackberry

Madagascar Periwinkle, Cranberry

Salvia, Victoria

Zinnia, All American Mix

 

Coming Soon:

American Aloe

Spineless Prickly Pear

 

 

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