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Ipomoea trifida

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Kunth) G. Don

Propagation

S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

• Shan lie ye shu (Pinyin)
• Little Bell

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Espirito Santo
• São Paulo
• Minas Gerais - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Florida
• South Carolina
• Texas - USA
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Thickets

Flowering Times

• Jul-Apr

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Apr

Perennial or annual glabrous or downy twining herbaceous vine, prostrate or climbing with pubescent triangular stems & tuberous root. Glabrous entire or 3-lobed leaves or 5-lobed to 60mm long, middle leaflets mucronate. Many-flowered axillary umbels or cymes of 40mm across violet to purple, white or pink flowers with darker throat, hairy calyx, glabrous or hirsute coriaceous mucronate sepals to 12mm long, pink or lilac-purple corolla to 40mm long with limb to 60mm long. Bristly pubescent capsule to 9mm diameter, 7mm long pubescent at top.

Further References

• Rubatzky 1997
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• NYBG
• Zuchowski
• FB
• FOC
• FOH
• FCP
• G. Don
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOSEUS
• Kew
• Standley