Rockland morning glory

Annuals. Stems twining. Leaf blades usually narrowly hastate or sagittate, sometimes ovate, 15–30 × 7–20 mm, base cor­date, hastate, or sagittate, lobes usually pointed, sometimes rounded, surfaces usually ± hairy, adaxial sometimes glabrate. Peduncles hairy, hairs appressed. Flowers: sepals lance-oblong, lanceolate, or lance-ovate, 5–8 mm, chartaceous or coriaceous, margins ciliate, apex acuminate, mucronate; corolla lavender, pink, or pink-purple, throat darker inside, funnelform, 30–45 mm.

Flowering Aug–Sep. Pine flatwoods; 0–30 m; Fla.

After fires, Ipomoea tenuissima seeds germinate and seedlings thrive for about a year. The plants then dis­appear except in sites that remain open.