North Carolina › Convolvulaceae › Ipomoea
Lavender Moonvine
Not native to North Carolina. Not on the invasive list, but recorded growing wild here.
Insect resources, birds and habitat
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Overwintering: no reviewed hardiness guidance loaded. Heat tolerance is not assessed.
| NC status (state rank) | SE |
| Grows in | unknown: no matched wetland indicator (wetland occurrence proxy: unknown; not a measured watering requirement) |
| Soil pH range | no data |
| Light | no data |
| Recorded in NC | county records not available |
| Single-host caterpillars on genus | 3 |
- Vascular Plants of North Carolina, plant list export 2026-09-01 (LeGrand, Sorrie & Howard)
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Wetland Plant List 2022, Eastern Mountains & Piedmont
Machine-readable: ipomoea-muricata.json. Cite as: Quercus Score v0.6.4, Ipomoea muricata, North Carolina, 2026-09-24.
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