Ipomoea tiliacea(Willd.) Choisy

Bejuco de puerco

WFO wfo-0001297268 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ipomoea tiliacea, photographed by Chris Merck
fig. a Chris Merck, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-11 / obs. 197131657
Ipomoea tiliacea, photographed by Tommy Andriollo
fig. b Tommy Andriollo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194042116
Ipomoea tiliacea, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. c Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 182180691
Ipomoea tiliacea, photographed by Michael Bakker Paiva
fig. d Michael Bakker Paiva, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173158223
Ipomoea tiliacea, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. e Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162385341
Ipomoea tiliacea, photographed by Martín Sánchez Vilchis
fig. f Martín Sánchez Vilchis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 9041380
Ipomoea tiliacea, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. g Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 980042
Ipomoea tiliacea, photographed by Carlos Henrique Russi
fig. h Carlos Henrique Russi, CC0 1.0 / obs. 68859913

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Native range 34 botanical countries

Regions where Ipomoea tiliacea is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPeruPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela BahamasCayman Is.Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Ipomoea tiliacea, 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
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Cayman Is. CAY
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
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 54 in flower of 55 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Ipomoea tiliacea 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. 54 of 55 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 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 12 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 essequebensis Spreng.
  • Convolvulus fastigatus Roxb.
  • Convolvulus fastigiatus Roxb. ex Wall.
  • Convolvulus macrorhizus A.Gray ex Choisy
  • Convolvulus platanifolius Vahl
  • Convolvulus tiliaceus Willd.
  • Ipomoea fastigiata Sweet
  • Ipomoea fastigiata var. pauciflora Meisn.
  • Ipomoea hirsuticaulis C.H.Wright
  • Ipomoea platanifolia (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
  • Ipomoea stenocolpa Garcke
  • Ipomoea surinamensis Miq.

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 IPTI2. 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.