When does Tievine bloom in Texas?

Most often in September. Across 1,144 dated, research-grade observations of Ipomoea cordatotriloba in Texas, the flowering season runs roughly April to December.

Peak September In flower 1,144 Examined 1,216 State Texas

Flowering 1,144 in flower of 1,216 examined

Proportion of examined Ipomoea cordatotriloba in Texas in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 2 3 too few examined
Feb 0 0 too few examined
Mar 3 4 too few examined
Apr 138 155 89% 83% to 93%
May 123 130 95% 89% to 97%
Jun 94 105 90% 82% to 94%
Jul 75 79 95% 88% to 98%
Aug 88 94 94% 87% to 97%
Sep 344 350 98% 96% to 99%
Oct 204 214 95% 92% to 97%
Nov 49 56 88% 76% to 94%
Dec 24 26 92% 76% to 98%

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Ipomoea cordatotriloba in Texas observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 1,144 of 1,216 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.wt38fd.

What this is, and what it is not

This is a record of when people in Texas found Ipomoea cordatotriloba in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Texas, so it is not the species’ global average dragged onto a map: the same plant flowers on different dates in different places, and that is the entire point of the page.

It will not tell you what your particular plant will do this year. Bloom time moves with the season, with altitude, and with the weather, and a warm February pulls everything forward. We publish the distribution and the sample size, and we refuse to draw a month that too few people examined.

The plant

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in Texas. Every record achieved iNaturalist quality grade Research, which is applied upstream at export. 10.15468/dl.wt38fd. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
  2. World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.