Ipomoea asarifolia(Desr.) Roem. & Schult.

ginger-leaf morning-glory

WFO wfo-0001296662 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ipomoea asarifolia, photographed by Breno Figueiredo
fig. a Breno Figueiredo, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-16 / obs. 148932372
Ipomoea asarifolia, photographed by Breno Figueiredo
fig. b Breno Figueiredo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148930673
Ipomoea asarifolia, photographed by Breno Figueiredo
fig. c Breno Figueiredo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142882910
Ipomoea asarifolia, photographed by Paulo Nogueira
fig. d Paulo Nogueira, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130107944
Ipomoea asarifolia, photographed by Breno Figueiredo
fig. e Breno Figueiredo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120189026
Ipomoea asarifolia, photographed by Breno Figueiredo
fig. f Breno Figueiredo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108881439
Ipomoea asarifolia, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. g Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100283550
Ipomoea asarifolia, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. h Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98696025

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Native range 47 botanical countries

Regions where Ipomoea asarifolia is native: Angola, Burkina, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan-South Sudan, Zambia, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Mexico Southeast, Argentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela, Windward Is. AngolaBurkinaCameroonChadGabonGambiaGhanaGuineaIvory CoastMaliMozambiqueNigerNigeriaSenegalSudan-South SudanZambiaCambodiaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.Sri LankaThailandVietnamMexico SoutheastArgentina NortheastBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruVenezuela Cape VerdeWindward Is.
Native distribution of Ipomoea asarifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Angola ANG AFRICA
Burkina BKN
Cameroon CMN
Cape Verde CVI
Chad CHA
Gabon GAB
Gambia GAM
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Ivory Coast IVO
Mali MLI
Mozambique MOZ
Niger NGR
Nigeria NGA
Senegal SEN
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Zambia ZAM
Cambodia CBD ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Mexico Southeast MXT NORTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 150 in flower of 181 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Ipomoea asarifolia 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. 150 of 181 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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.cgje2x.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Amphione asarifolia (Desr.) Raf.
  • Convolvulus asarifolius Desr.
  • Convolvulus beladambu Spreng.
  • Convolvulus rugosus Rottler
  • Convolvulus urbicus Salzm. ex Choisy
  • Ipomoea beladamboe Roem. & Schult.
  • Ipomoea crassifolia Cav.
  • Ipomoea flagelliformis (Roxb.) Steud.
  • Ipomoea grisebachii Prain
  • Ipomoea latifolia M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Ipomoea nymphaeifolia Griseb.
  • Ipomoea pes-caprae var. heterosepala Chodat & Hassl.
  • Ipomoea repens Lam.
  • Ipomoea rugosa (Rottler) Choisy
  • Ipomoea urbica Choisy
  • Ipomoea urbica var. muricata Choisy
  • Ipomoea vogelii Baker

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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