morning glory

1. Any of various twining vines having funnel-shaped flowers that close late in the day (synset 112847276)
   is a type of: vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
   subtypes:

   • common morning glory, ipomoea purpurea - pantropical annual climbing herb with funnel-shaped blue, purple, pink or white flowers
   • common morning glory, ipomoea tricolor - annual or perennial climbing herb of Central America having sky-blue flowers; most commonly cultivated morning glory
   • cypress vine, indian pink, ipomoea quamoclit, quamoclit pennata, star-glory - tropical American annual climber having red (sometimes white) flowers and finely dissected leaves; naturalized in United States and elsewhere
   • belle de nuit, ipomoea alba, moonflower - pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers
   • ipomoea batatas, sweet potato, sweet potato vine - pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh
   • ipomoea fastigiata, ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, manroot, scammonyroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine - tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
   • ipomoea coccinea, red morning-glory, star ipomoea - annual herb having scarlet flowers; the eastern United States
   • ipomoea leptophylla, man-of-the-earth - a morning glory with long roots of western United States
   • ipomoea orizabensis, scammony - tropical American morning glory
   • beach morning glory, ipomoea pes-caprae, railroad vine - a prostrate perennial of coastal sand dunes Florida to Texas
   • ipomoea nil, japanese morning glory - annual Old World tropical climbing herb distinguished by wide color range and frilled or double flowers
   • imperial japanese morning glory, ipomoea imperialis - hybrid from Ipomoea nil
   belongs to: genus ipomoea, ipomoea - morning glory

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