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Excerpts from Jim Conrad's
Naturalist Newsletter
from the October 27, 2008 Newsletter written in Yokdzonot about half an hour by bus west of Pisté, Yucatán, México
elevation ~25m (~82 ft), N20.707°, W88.731°
RED MORNING-GLORIES
A red-flowered morning-glory is in full bloom here now and against late-rainy-season, deep-green backgrounds the blossoms simply explode with color, as shown above.
You don't have to come to the Yucatán to see this species. In late summer you can see them along weedy roadsides in most of the US Southeast, where they're also called Scarlet Creeper and Star Ipomoea. It's IPOMOEA COCCINEA, native to tropical America, and maybe to the US Southeast, too. This is different from the red-flowered Cypress-Vine whose seeds I distributed among Newsletter readers back when I was hermitting in Mississippi. Though Cypress-Vine belongs to the same genus and its flowers are very similar, its small leaves are divided into many threadlike segments, making them very frilly-looking.