PlantFiles: Pink Moon Vine
Ipomoea macrorhiza

This is my first year to grow them and they are pretty but no smell.... I still like the white moon vine the best. I have added pic to show that these are not white, they are pale pink with darker pink eye.

This forms a tuberous root, which gets larger each year.

Mine didn't grow very much the first year, but the second year, it made it to 12 feet.

The blooms are absolutely gorgeous with their soft lavender/pink color, and deeper throat. The edges are beautifully scalloped.

Great night-blooming vine which is perfect for a moon garden and wonderful for attracting sphinx moths, (which look like nocturnal hummingbirds! lol...)

It is not fragrant, like regular moonflower vine, but makes up for it, with its sheer beauty!

...love it!
-T

One of the most beautiful vines I've ever grown! The flowers were huge and breathtaking, not fully opening until total nightfall. The huge flower buds and crinkly leaves made for an interesting daytime plant.

I have had this vine in my yard for at least 2-3 years and did not know it. It hid in a pink flowering vine and blooming late in the evening I was missing seeing it..The root is almost as big as a soccer ball.
I counted 65 blossoms in the 2003 blooming season and made sure that every seed was harvested!I will try my luck with the seed this spring.
The blossom is a luminous pink and so fragile looking.It would be ideal for a moon garden.
The beauty of it is that it comes back every year.I am in zone 7-8.

Neutral because I have just plamted 3 (2 in pots, one inground), in my zone 6ish garden & I have no idea how they'll perform for me. They are all in locations where they'll receive maximum sun. Being a tropical, I know I'll either have to bring them indoors in the fall or treat them as annuals. They're so inexpensive, I'll most likely treat them as annuals. Is this plant also called Moon Flower?? My plants were purchased under this name. It sure looks similar as do the leaves. If it is indeed Moon Flower they are highly fragrant & the flowers open in the evening. Moon Flower is in the Morning Glory family. Thanks for any help. Happy gardening! P.S. Aren't I a dolt?? Just clicked on the pic & by golly, there's my answer!! This is indeed Moon Flower!!! I'll just leave this here for any of my dolt-counterparts who are wondering the same thing & haven't clicked on the photo!!!

The tubers for this plant survived in a POT outdoors in Zone 7a, and we had one night at 3 degrees, our coldest in several years. Also, the bloom color is listed here as white, but it's really a lavender-pink.