Ipomoea sagittataPoir.

saltmarsh morning-glory

WFO wfo-0001297260 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ipomoea sagittata, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. a Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 204327887
Ipomoea sagittata, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. b Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202032534
Ipomoea sagittata, photographed by Neesy Tompkins
fig. c Neesy Tompkins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201393608
Ipomoea sagittata, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. d Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196559078
Ipomoea sagittata, photographed by Ryan Watson
fig. e Ryan Watson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189843446
Ipomoea sagittata, photographed by Tom Field
fig. f Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171961578
Ipomoea sagittata, photographed by Judy Gallagher
fig. g Judy Gallagher, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 164042882
Ipomoea sagittata, photographed by Melissa McMasters
fig. h Melissa McMasters, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165473042

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Ipomoea sagittata is native: Algeria, Tunisia, Cyprus, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye, Baleares, Corse, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Sicilia, Spain, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Jamaica AlgeriaTunisiaCyprusLebanon-SyriaPalestineTürkiyeCorseGreeceItalyPortugalSiciliaSpainAlabamaFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMississippiNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaTexasBelizeCubaDominican RepublicGuatemalaJamaica BalearesBahamasBermuda
Native distribution of Ipomoea sagittata, 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
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mississippi MSI
North Carolina NCA
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Corse COR
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Portugal POR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Bermuda BER
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Guatemala GUA
Jamaica JAM
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Tunisia TUN

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 581 in flower of 628 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Ipomoea sagittata 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. 581 of 628 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 3 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 formosus J.F.Gmel.
  • Convolvulus sagittifolius Michx.
  • Convolvulus wheleri Vahl

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.