Ipomoea setiferaPoir.

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WFO wfo-0001297033 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ipomoea setifera, photographed by donbull
fig. a donbull, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-17 / obs. 179819067
Ipomoea setifera, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60877787
Ipomoea setifera, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60858964
Ipomoea setifera, photographed by Dan Killam
fig. d Dan Killam, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32173454
Ipomoea setifera, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. e Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3844575
Ipomoea setifera, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. f Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6775372
Ipomoea setifera, photographed by Elliot Greiner
fig. g Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181575264
Ipomoea setifera, photographed by Elliot Greiner
fig. h Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181580554

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Native range 30 botanical countries

Regions where Ipomoea setifera is native: Mexico Southeast, Argentina Northeast, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. Mexico SoutheastArgentina NortheastBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela BahamasLeeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Ipomoea setifera, 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 Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bahamas BAH
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
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
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
Mexico Southeast MXT NORTHERN AMERICA

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 68 in flower of 76 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Ipomoea setifera 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. 68 of 76 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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 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.

  • Calystegia setifera Meisn.
  • Calystegia setifera var. poeppigii Meisn.
  • Convolvulus breviflorus Spreng.
  • Convolvulus ruber Vahl
  • Convolvulus setifer Spreng.
  • Ipomoea assumptionis Britton
  • Ipomoea breviflora (Spreng.) G.Mey.
  • Ipomoea calidicola Standl. & L.O.Williams
  • Ipomoea lesteri Baker
  • Ipomoea palustris (Urb.) Urb.
  • Ipomoea rubra (Vahl) Millsp.
  • Ipomoea rubra var. alboflavida Urb.
  • Ipomoea rubra var. palustris Urb.
  • Ipomoea serrulifera Standl. & L.O.Williams
  • Ipomoea setifera var. poeppigii (Meisn.) Hoehne
  • Sciadiara ruber Raf.

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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