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Ipomoea indica
Ipomoea indica
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (J. Burman) Merrill
- Propagation
- C.D.S.
- Cultivated
- C, ornamental
- Hardiness Zone
- Min7C 8-11
Common Names
- Blue Dawn Flower
- Perennial Morning Glory
- Purple Morning Glory
- Blue Convolvulus
- Bian se qian niu (Pinyin)
- Blue Morning Glory
- Koali 'awa (Hawaiian)
- Koali 'awahia (Hawaiian)
- Koali la'au (Hawaiian)
- Koali pehu (Hawaiian)
- Ocean Blue Morning Glory
- Don Diego del Día
- Gloria de la Mañana
- Purple Winder
- Wabuli (Fiji)
- Wavuti (Fiji)
- Wawuti (Fiji)
- Yavu (Fiji)
- Manto de la Virgen (Mexico)
- Quiebra Plato (Mexico)
- Bejuco de Gloria
- Patate Marron (Guadeloupe)
- No-asagao (Japan)
- Churristate (Costa Rica)
Geographical Habitats
- N.Argentina
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Brazil
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Uruguay
- Florida
- Texas - USA
- Venezuela
- Venezuelan Antilles
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Scrub
- disturbed areas
- coastal
- riverside
- forest edge
- coastal
- thickets
- montane areas
- streamside thickets
Flowering Times
- Dec-Mar (Paraguay)
- Jun-Dec (Japan)
- Feb (Mexico)
- Aug-Sep (Windward Islands)
- Apr (Bolivia)
Fruiting Times
Tall herbaceous evergreen hairy or glabrous perennial twiner, sometime prostrate with angular hairy roughish stems. Entire or 3-lobed mucronate leaves to 110mm x 110mm, strigose or glabrous above with greyish down beneath. Solitary or axillary cymes of flowers with pubescent bracteoles to 10mm x 1mm, 100mm blue, pink or blue-purple flowers rarely white aging purplish-red or reddish-purple with white stripes, paler centre, downy outside, downy sepals & petioles, glabrate sepals to 20mm x 5mm ending in awns, glabrous corolla to 80mm x 70mm, with limb 80mm across. Beaked brown 3-6 valved glabrous capsule to 9mm x 15mm.
Invasive. Can become a serious weed, widely naturalised
Medicinal uses
Further References
- E & M 1970
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Herklots 1976
- van der Spuy 1976
- Jones & Gray 1977
- Beckett 1990
- Huxley 1992
- P & R 1997
- FOC
- FONZ
- FOH
- RHs A-Z
- NYBG
- Llamas 2003
- Neotrop
- Bodkin
- FB
- JPS
- Nombot
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- FA
- Fedde
- FV
- Botanicus
- JAA
- FOJ
- FOSEUS
- Kew
- Standley
- KB