| Author | (L.) Roth | |
| Distribution | Throughout the state; no doubt in every county.
Native of the neotropics; in N.A. throughout most of the U.S. and southern Canada. | |
| Abundance | Common in most of the Piedmont and Coastal Plain; infrequent in the Mountains and coastal regions; rare on the Outer Banks. | |
| Habitat | Roadsides, fields, margins of cropfields, meadows, barnyards, borders of woods, thickets, disturbed ground. Where it occurs, it can be present over several acres of a vacant field. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting July-September. | |
| Identification | Common Morning-glory is familiar to most folks, due to the attractive violet to red-purple flowers (varying to pink or even white). It climbs and clambers over other vegetation and fences. The flower stalks (pedicels) are densely hairy, as in I. hederaceus, but the sepal tips are short and acute (vs. long-acuminate). Very few other plants in NC have such a variety of distinct flower colors, even on the same plant, and a stand in bloom will almost always have a several colors of flowers -- seldom all a single color. | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | UPL link |
| USACE-emp | UPL link |
