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Ipomoea hederifolia

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Propagation

S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

• Cardinal's Flower
• Star Ipomoea
• Trompillo
• Scarlet Creeper
• Ivy-leaf Red Morning-glory
• Myat-lay (Myanmar)
• Liseron Hallier (Guadeloupe)
• Liseron Rouge (Martinique)

Geographical Habitats

• NW. Argentina
• Bahamas
• Belize
• Bermuda
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Distrito Federal
• Maranhão
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Piaui
• Mato Grosso
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Cayman Islands
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Alabama
• Arizona
• Florida
• Georgia
• Louisiana
• New Mexico
• W. Texas
• Vermont
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• disturbed forest
• thickets
• cut-over forest
• coastal
• riverine forest
• forest edges
• secondary vegetation

Flowering Times

• Oct-Jan (Puerto Rico)
• Feb-Jun (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Jan (Puerto Rico)

Annual herbaceous glabrous or downy-stemmed slightly woody twining shrub or creeper. Mucronate 3-lobed or 3-5 parted leaves to 120mm x 110mm, glabrous or villous with toothed margins, lobes dentately sinuated, angular stems. Terminal or axillary panicles, racemes or cymes with 1mm bracteoles of 50mm orange, yellow or scarlet flowers with long tube, glabrous sepals to 5mm long with subulate appendage near the apex, glabrous scarlet corolla with tube to 40mm & limb 25mm diameter. Glabrous 4-valved capsule to 8mm long and across with 1mm beak.

Naturalised in some areas, invasive

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• P & R 1997
• Mobot
• FOH
• NYBG
• Llamas 2003
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• VOPR
• USNH
• Botanicus
• JAA
• USNH
• Kew
• KB