Growing Conditions: A Flower That Can Take It All They are often also coated with agricultural chemicals. The seeds are toxic, however, and can cause serious health problems when consumed. Mesoamerican indians would imbibe these seeds to enter trances and altered states for ritualistic purposes. Seeds from the morning glory have been consumed as a hallucinogenic substance because of a compound called LSA (similar to LSD). Tea brewed from the dry leaves has been used by herbal healers to treat headaches, too. The morning glory has been used as a laxative in Asian and Mesoamerican countries for centuries, and a tea was sometimes concocted from its roots as a diuretic and expectorant. Man, this flower has some bittersweet themes going on, huh?ĭon’t worry, Walt Whitman says, “A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books,” and philosopher Alan Watts opines, “The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.” In this story, a morning glory represents this brief period of time for two lovers to spend together.Ĭhristian tradition suggests the short life of a morning glory flower represents the finite amount of time we have in the world, and in Victorian times the morning glory stood for a love that never ends… or one that goes unrequited, often decorating headstones. They were punished and forced to work, allowed to see each other but once a year. The Chinese have a tale of two lovers who spent all of their time together and spurned their chores until the work piled up around them. It is also a regular reference in poetry, literature, and folklore. The image of the morning glory is represented in famous works of painting and sculpture across the world by Georgia O’Keeffe, Sopheap Pich, Suzuki Kiitsu, and others. But don’t worry, faithful readers, we’ll be covering those species in future material! An Icon for Artists and Writers purpurea and not the other varieties of morning glories. This article will be looking specifically at I. The Ipomoea genus has more than 500 species under its umbrella, and these are most often grown as annuals. The common name “morning glory” is thrown around to describe various plants in the Convolvulaceae family, a broad group that includes moon flowers ( I. Growing Conditions: A Flower That Can Take It All.
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