Ipomoea setosaKer Gawl.

Brazilian morning-glory

WFO wfo-0000747953 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 setosa, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. a Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-28 / obs. 179626030

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Ipomoea setosa is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela Mexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Ipomoea setosa, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 35 in flower of 44 examined

Proportion of examined Ipomoea setosa in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 5 6 83% 44% to 97%
Feb 5 7 71% 36% to 92%
Mar 0 0 too few examined
Apr 2 2 too few examined
May 0 0 too few examined
Jun 0 0 too few examined
Jul 3 4 too few examined
Aug 1 4 too few examined
Sep 2 4 too few examined
Oct 5 5 100% 57% to 100%
Nov 5 5 100% 57% to 100%
Dec 7 7 100% 65% to 100%

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Ipomoea setosa 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. 35 of 44 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 13 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.

  • Calonyction campanulatum Hallier f.
  • Calonyction pavonii Hallier f.
  • Calonyction setosum (Ker Gawl.) Hallier f.
  • Convolvulus setosus (Ker Gawl.) Spreng.
  • Ipomoea campaniflora Hallier f.
  • Ipomoea chaetophora Hallier f.
  • Ipomoea horrida Huber ex Ducke
  • Ipomoea melanotricha Brandegee
  • Ipomoea pavonii Choisy
  • Ipomoea pickelii Hoehne
  • Ipomoea setosa var. campanulata (Hallier f.) House
  • Ipomoea setosa var. pavonii (Hallier f.) House
  • Modesta setosa (Ker Gawl.) 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.

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.