Ipomoea leptophylla

Ipomoea leptophylla

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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Convolvulaceae
Genus: Ipomoea
Species:
I. leptophylla
Binomial name
Ipomoea leptophylla
Torr.

Ipomoea leptophylla, the bush morning glory, bush moonflower or manroot, is a species of flowering plant in the bindweed family, Convolvulaceae.

It belongs to the morning glory genus Ipomoea and is native to the Great Plains of western North America.[1] It has a large Tuber.[1]

The Latin specific epithet leptophylla means "fine- or slender-leaved."[2]

  1. ^ a b "Ipomoea leptophylla (Bush morning-glory)". Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. 2018-08-30. Archived from the original on 2021-08-10. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
  2. ^ D. Gledhill The Names of Plants, p. 235, at Google Books