Ipomoea muricata(L.) Jacq.

lilacbell

WFO wfo-0001296671 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Ipomoea muricata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-10-23 / obs. 129637882
Ipomoea muricata, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. b Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6335188
Ipomoea muricata, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. c Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11233472
Ipomoea muricata, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. d Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161839242
Ipomoea muricata, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. e Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6335189
Ipomoea muricata, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. f Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161839396
Ipomoea muricata, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. g Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 101822786
Ipomoea muricata, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. h Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 101822801

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Ipomoea muricata is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Galápagos, Guatemala, Honduras, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPeruVenezuela GalápagosNetherlands Antilles
Native distribution of Ipomoea muricata, 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
Bolivia BOL
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Galápagos GAL
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Nicaragua NIC
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT

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.

Also published as 16 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.

  • Bonanox muricata Raf.
  • Calonyction longiflorum Hassk.
  • Calonyction muricatum G.Don
  • Calonyction pseudomuricatum (Bernh. ex Link) G.Don
  • Calonyction speciosum var. muricatum (L.) Choisy
  • Convolvulus colubrinus Blanco
  • Convolvulus muricatus L.
  • Convolvulus smilacifolius Salisb.
  • Ipomoea bona-nox var. purpurascens Ker Gawl.
  • Ipomoea calderonii Standl.
  • Ipomoea kirkiana Britten
  • Ipomoea petiolaris G.Don
  • Ipomoea pseudomuricata Bernh. ex Link
  • Ipomoea spinulosa Brandegee
  • Ipomoea turbinata Lag.
  • Leptocallis quinata G.Don

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol IPTU3. public domain. 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.