Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness

Presented in Association with the
Western New Mexico University Department of Natural Sciences

Ipomoea tenuiloba Torrey var. tenuiloba
(Spiderleaf)

Family: Convolvulaceae

Status: Native

Synonyms:
None

Ipomoea tenuiloba is unmistakeable-- it is a twining plant with leaves palmately cleft into filiform segments and with several centimeter long white flowers. The flowers seem to open at night rather than during the daylight hours. The sepals are warty. Ipomoea tenuiloba is found on rocky slopes at middle elevation.
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Ipomoea tenuiloba, photo Russ Kleinman, Gene Jercinovic, Steve O'Kane & Ken Heil, Black Range, Kneeling Nun Overlook, August 2, 2010



Ipomoea tenuiloba, growth habit, photo Russ Kleinman, Gene Jercinovic, Steve O'Kane & Ken Heil, Black Range, Kneeling Nun Overlook, August 2, 2010



Ipomoea tenuiloba, closeup of leaf and warty sepals, photo Russ Kleinman, Gene Jercinovic, Steve O'Kane & Ken Heil, Black Range, Kneeling Nun Overlook, August 2, 2010



Ipomoea tenuiloba, twining, photo Russ Kleinman, Gene Jercinovic, Steve O'Kane & Ken Heil, Black Range, Kneeling Nun Overlook, August 2, 2010



Ipomoea tenuiloba, closeup of flower, photo Russ Kleinman, Black Range, Kneeling Nun Overlook, August 2 in the evening, 2010



Ipomoea tenuiloba, closeup of flower, photo Russ Kleinman, Black Range, Kneeling Nun Overlook, August 2 in the evening, 2010


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