Ipomoea quamoclit

Easily identified vine by its bright red flowers and pinnately compound leaves. Leaf divisions are linear segments 1 mm or less wide, 9 - 19 pairs of alternate or opposite segments, 0.2 - 1.5 mm wide.

The following information is for the genus Ipomoea: Animals that eat the seeds: Bobwhite quail, Gambel quail. Animals that eat the leaves: Cottontail rabbit (Martin et al. 1951).

A cultivated vine, native to South America, that has become naturalized. The Acadians of south Louisiana called it "chevulure de venus" which apparently refers to its fine leaves (Holmes 1990).

Occasional escape to fields, roadsides, and waste places.