morning glory

noun

Updated on: 22 Apr 2018

Definition of morning glory

: any of various usually twining plants (genus Ipomoea of the family Convolvulaceae, the morning-glory family) with showy trumpet-shaped flowers; broadly : an herb, shrub, or tree of the morning-glory family

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Flowers that can be planted from seed directly into the garden include alyssum, aster, celosia, cosmos, four o’clocks, marigold, morning glory, periwinkle, portulaca, salvia, sunflower, verbena and zinnia.

— debbie arrington, sacbee, "Roses (and rose gardens) fill Sacramento with romance," 13 Apr. 2018
These super aggressive weeds include blackberry, Scotch broom, bindweed (also known as invasive morning glory), horsetail, English ivy, poison oak and old man’s beard (also known as traveler’s joy; an invasive species of clematis).

— OregonLive.com, "How to defend lawns, gardens against invasive weeds," 27 Feb. 2018
Residents posted photographs of a girl who had been killed, grinning in front of a wall of morning glories; a crying baby with his right foot blown off; and worse.

— anne barnard and hwaida saad, New York Times, "It’s Hard to Believe, but Syria’s War Is Getting Even Worse," 8 Feb. 2018
That’s also an attempt to make our soil less attractive to field bindweed (wild morning glory).

— margaret lauterbach, idahostatesman, "here is a timeline for planting crops this year in southern idaho | Idaho Statesman," 7 Feb. 2018
Its membership in the Convolvulaceae, or morning-glory, family has led to one of its common names: African morning glory.

— earl nickel, San Francisco Chronicle, "Versatile evergreen Falkia repens covers a lot of ground," 26 Jan. 2018
The morning glory muffin, that back-to-the-land sensation of the '70s, became my inspiration.

— chris morocco, Bon Appetit, "Breakfast Cookies Are the Reason We're Getting Up in the Morning," 16 Oct. 2017
Sweet potatoes are members of the morning glory family.

— terri milligan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Is it a yam or a sweet potato?," 24 Sep. 2017
Why are the leaves of my morning glories, marigolds and other plants turning tan, then dried and crisp?

— neil sperry, star-telegram, "Burning questions about pests, weeds and more, as summer yields to fall," 5 Sep. 2017

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: a plant that has many brightly colored flowers that open in the morning

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: a vine that climbs by twisting around something and has large trumpet-shaped flowers that close in bright sunshine

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