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Ipomoea pandurata
Ipomoea pandurata
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) G.F.W. Meyer
- Propagation
- D.E.S.
Common Names
- Wild Sweet Potato
- Wild Potato Vine
- Man-of-the-earth
- Wild Jalap
- Ciliated-leaved Ipomoea
Geographical Habitats
- Ontario - Canada
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Connecticut
- District of Columbia
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansa
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Massachussetts
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvannia
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- West Virginia - U.S.A.
Natural Habitats
- Dry sites
- disturbed areas.
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Perennial downy or glabrous twiner or trailer with large turnip-shaped root sometimes 600mm long, stems trailing or twining to 4m. Sometimes 3-lobed glabrous or glabrate fiddle-shaped leaves with ciliated edges to 100mm long. Fascicles or solitary flowers with bracts, 100mm white flowers with purple throat, sepals to 18mm long, white or pinkish corolla to 100mm across, lavender within with 5 lobes.
Weed potential
Medicinal uses
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Huxley 1992
- P & R 1997
- NYBG
- Bodkin
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- USDA
- Botanicus
- FOSEUS
- USNH
- Kew