Beach Morning Glory

Beach Morning Glory, also known as Railroad Vine, is a species of bindweed. It's a perennial vine, and if the beautiful flowers weren't enough, it's another plant that is important to the health of the beach. It helps stabilize the sand dunes, because the vines grow outward horizontally and roots grow down into the sand from nodes along the vine. Leaves of the beach morning glory are rounded and leathery, up to an inch and a half in length. The corollas of the flower range from light pink to bright purple. The seeds are poisonous if ingested.