Ipomoea pes-caprae(L.) R.Br.

Beach Morning Glory

WFO wfo-0001296638 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Ipomoea pes-caprae, photographed by purperlibel
fig. a purperlibel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203773740
Ipomoea pes-caprae, photographed by jackywu
fig. b jackywu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205724492
Ipomoea pes-caprae, photographed by rockybajada
fig. c rockybajada, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203626858
Ipomoea pes-caprae, photographed by Juan Carlos A. Fierro
fig. d Juan Carlos A. Fierro, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203003877
Ipomoea pes-caprae, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. e Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203299359
Ipomoea pes-caprae, photographed by Ben
fig. f Ben, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201197510
Ipomoea pes-caprae, photographed by Augustin Soulard
fig. g Augustin Soulard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204338036
Ipomoea pes-caprae, photographed by Ben
fig. h Ben, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201493117

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Flowering n = 2,407 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 2,407 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 29 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 maritima (R.Br.) Bojer
  • Convolvulus bauhiniifolius Salisb.
  • Convolvulus biglandulosus Stokes
  • Convolvulus bilobatus Roxb.
  • Convolvulus brasiliensis L.
  • Convolvulus capripes Stokes
  • Convolvulus pes-caprae L.
  • Convolvulus retusus Colla
  • Convolvulus rotundifolius Schumach. & Thonn.
  • Ipomoea aegopoda St.-Lag.
  • Ipomoea biloba Forssk.
  • Ipomoea bilobata var. emarginata (Hallier f.) R.O.Williams
  • Ipomoea brasiliensis (L.) Sweet
  • Ipomoea brevipes Moc. & Sessé ex Choisy
  • Ipomoea maritima R.Br.
  • Ipomoea orbicularis Elliott
  • Ipomoea pes-caprae f. albiflora B.C.Stone
  • Ipomoea pes-caprae f. albiflora Domin
  • Ipomoea pes-caprae subsp. brasiliensis (L.) Ooststr.
  • Ipomoea pes-caprae var. brasiliensis (L.) A.St.-Hil.
  • Ipomoea pes-caprae var. emarginata Hallier f.
  • Ipomoea pes-caprae var. perunkulamensis P.Umam. & P.Daniel
  • Ipomoea rotundifolia G.Don
  • Latrienda brasiliensis Raf.

and 5 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.

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