Ipomoea triloba L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Convolvulaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Ipomoea triloba L.

  • Description

    Species Description - Somewhat pubescent or glabrate; stem herbaceous, slender, 5-10 dm. long, usually trailing. Leaves usually very deeply 3-5-lobed, sometimes entire, ovate, 2-10 cm. long, acute or acuminate at the apex, cordate at the base, the petioles slender; peduncles mostly longer than the petioles, 1-few-flowered; pedicels 1-2 cm. long, thickening in fruit; sepals oblong, acute or mucronate, pilose, 5-6 mm. long; corolla red or purple, funnelform-campanulate, about 1.5 em. broad; capsule subglobose, pilose, 2-celled, about 7 mm. in diameter; seeds glabrous.

  • Distribution

    Waste and cultivated grounds, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to Andros, Grand Turk and Inagua : Florida: West Indies; continental tropical America; tropical Asia. CREEPING MORNING-GLORY.

    Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|