Slowly taking over my back yard in Philadelphia! No flowers yet unfortunately.

by Ok-Poem8240

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  1. TedTheHappyGardener

    Morning glory. I would guess Ipomoea hederacea.

  2. katethesolid8

    It’s morning glory! Get rid of it highly invasive! Will take over everything!

  3. magnum_chungus

    It’s 1000% a morning glory. Which kind/color is impossible to say. What is possible to say is that it will be the bane of your existence if you let it flower and then go to seed.

    Each flower head will make a seed pod with 3-5 seeds each. Of those 3-5 seeds, about 33% will germinate. In a 15’ section of vine, you’ll have 15-20 flowers. Each of the seeds that germinate will make another vine that is 15-30’ long (or longer) and each of those vines will have 15-20 flowers per 15 feet. The vines are really, really aggressive and will choke out any other flowers you have, can pull down small saplings, and can pull down full grown sunflowers.

    They are beautiful. I love them. But I prefer a long, **long** distance relationship. These will absolutely take over the space they are in (not in a good way), will find a way to get into any crack or crevice in your house, and grow into that. I know Reddit can be a bit hyperbolic about some things. But this isn’t one. I let one vine go to seed 4 years ago and have a 5 gallon bucket full of vines I picked out of my beds *this week*. And I get a 5 gallon bucket at least once a week from mid-May until probably August. From one vine 4 years ago.

  4. Yeah I don’t think morning glory have split leaves could be a moonflower.

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