I have a plant that looks like a morning glory, has the same shaped leaves except the leaves are purple.?

Question

The flowers are a bit smaller than regular morning glories and are light purple. What is it?

Answer 1

It sounds like it may be a type of morning glory, but as for

the purple leaves, I've never seen any with purple leaves.  Did

you plant it from seed?  If so it may be a hybrid.  Some

nursery companies are coming out with so many hybrids nowawadays that it may be a new type of morning glory.  If

it came up by itself (volunteer), maybe it's actually a native morning glory.  Have you tried asking on some other sites

on the web?  I had a plant I couldn't identify and I contacted

several nurseries and horticulture.com.  One of them figured

out the name of it for me, but now I can't remember which one!  It may have been horticulture.com so try that site.  Also

Birds and Blooms magazine has a section about questions

about flowers, birds, gardening, etc.  that you can ask them.

They're pretty good at answering some really baffling plant

questions.   Good luck!

Answer 2

I have a couple plants that the leaves turn purple when its getting too much sun. They call it getting "sunburned". Could be you have a moonflower which only blooms in the evening and maybe the leaves are sunburned.

Answer 3

Could it be a Sweet Potato Vine?  a.k.a. Ipomoea batatas.'Blackie' is kind of morning glory and has deep blackish purple leaves.  Though, I have never seen it blooming...