CONVOLVULACEAE (Morning Glory) - Wildflowers of the Escambia
World wide there are about 50 genera and over 1,400 species of
Morning Glory, mostly in temperate and tropical regions. Morning
Glory refers to two families; Convolvulus or Ipomoea.
Convolvulus has many noxious weeds; Ipomoea also has weeds but
some species are cultivated for the flowers and one for its food
value - the sweet potato. There are no morning glory trees in
the Escambia region but a shrub does exist, which thus far is
treated primarily as an ornamental; Ipomoea cornea.  Extracts
from this family of plants has also been used extensively in the
development of medicines. It climbs fences, grace shrubs, feed
us and still finds room to give us a world-class drug that has
probably touched every family in some way - the treatment of
arthritis.   Scarlet Cypress Vine (I. quamoclit)  White Cypress
Vine (I. quamoclit) Cypress Vine is a smooth, twining annual
with leaves that are divided into numerous linear segments.
Preferred habitat is roadside