Ipomoea hederifoliaL.

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WFO wfo-0001296668 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ipomoea hederifolia, photographed by Hugo Innes
fig. a Hugo Innes, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204856334
Ipomoea hederifolia, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. b Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205012052
Ipomoea hederifolia, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184506693
Ipomoea hederifolia, photographed by Haneesh K M
fig. d Haneesh K M, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174377651
Ipomoea hederifolia, photographed by Ashwin Srinivasan
fig. e Ashwin Srinivasan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174575408
Ipomoea hederifolia, photographed by Nonbinary-Naturalist
fig. f Nonbinary-Naturalist, CC0 1.0 / obs. 172423575
Ipomoea hederifolia, photographed by Nonbinary-Naturalist
fig. g Nonbinary-Naturalist, CC0 1.0 / obs. 169150726
Ipomoea hederifolia, photographed by Jim Riley
fig. h Jim Riley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 168102885

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Native range 45 botanical countries

Regions where Ipomoea hederifolia is native: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Texas, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. AlabamaArizonaFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestMississippiTexasArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela BermudaCayman Is.Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Ipomoea hederifolia, 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 Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Bermuda BER
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Cayman Is. CAY
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arizona ARI
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Mississippi MSI
Texas TEX

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 422 in flower of 428 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Ipomoea hederifolia 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. 422 of 428 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 35 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.

  • Convolvulus acutangulus Spreng.
  • Convolvulus angulatus Spreng.
  • Convolvulus coccineus var. hederifolius (L.) Kuntze
  • Convolvulus luteolus (Jacq.) Spreng.
  • Convolvulus phoeniceus (Roxb. ex Rottler) Spreng.
  • Convolvulus sanguineus Spreng.
  • Doxema sanguinea Raf.
  • Ipomoea acutangula Ruiz & Pav.
  • Ipomoea angularis Willd.
  • Ipomoea angulata Lam.
  • Ipomoea brevipedicellata (Hallier f.) Hallier f.
  • Ipomoea coccinea f. luteola (Jacq.) Voss
  • Ipomoea coccinea var. curviflora Griseb.
  • Ipomoea coccinea var. hederifolia (L.) A.Gray
  • Ipomoea coccinea var. luteola (Jacq.) Meisn.
  • Ipomoea dichotoma Kunth
  • Ipomoea hephrophylla Meisn.
  • Ipomoea humboltiana Willd.
  • Ipomoea luteola Jacq.
  • Ipomoea nephrophylla Meisn.
  • Ipomoea phoenicea Roxb.
  • Ipomoea phoenicea (Roxb.) Choisy
  • Ipomoea sanguinea Vahl
  • Ipomoea stylosa Hort.Madr. ex Choisy

and 11 more.

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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