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El Paso County Wildflower Project - Bush Morning Glory

Bush Morning Glory

Bloom Season: June - August

Habitat: thrives in dry, open habitats with well-drained sandy or gravelly soils, making it a staple of the eastern plains, shortgrass prairies, and rocky foothills

Photography Notes: Susceptible to a breeze

Credits: Rose Ludwig, 21 July

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]

El Paso County Wildflower Project

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Bush Morning Glory (native) is one of many wildflowers featured in the El Paso CO Wildflower Project, a community-built field guide documenting the wildflowers of El Paso County, Colorado.