Ipomoea carneaJacq.

gloria de la manana

WFO wfo-0001296663 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ipomoea carnea, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. a Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-25 / obs. 189139804
Ipomoea carnea, photographed by Romi Galeota Lencina
fig. b Romi Galeota Lencina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181361091
Ipomoea carnea, photographed by Sue Carnahan
fig. c Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177431500
Ipomoea carnea, photographed by Sue Carnahan
fig. d Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177430803
Ipomoea carnea, photographed by Sue Carnahan
fig. e Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177430532
Ipomoea carnea, photographed by Sue Carnahan
fig. f Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177430735
Ipomoea carnea, photographed by Navaneeth Sini George
fig. g Navaneeth Sini George, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175394524
Ipomoea carnea, photographed by Navaneeth Sini George
fig. h Navaneeth Sini George, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175494304

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Ipomoea carnea is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Ipomoea carnea, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 355 in flower of 375 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Ipomoea carnea 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. 355 of 375 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 18 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.

  • Batatas crassicaulis Benth.
  • Convolvulus batatilla Kunth
  • Convolvulus carneus (Jacq.) Spreng.
  • Convolvulus pareirifolius Berthel. ex Spreng.
  • Ipomoea batatilla (Kunth) G.Don
  • Ipomoea carnea f. albiflora Moldenke
  • Ipomoea crassicaulis B.L.Rob.
  • Ipomoea fistulosa Mart. ex Choisy
  • Ipomoea fistulosa f. albiflora Chodat & Hassl.
  • Ipomoea fistulosa var. nicaraguensis Donn.Sm.
  • Ipomoea fruticosa Kuntze
  • Ipomoea gossypioides Hort. ex Dammann
  • Ipomoea gossypioides Parodi
  • Ipomoea nicaraguensis (Donn.Sm.) House
  • Ipomoea pareiraefolia (Bertero ex Spreng.) G.Don
  • Ipomoea texana J.M.Coult.
  • Ipomoea tragulifera Miers
  • Saccia elegans Naudin

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.