Ipomoea hederaceaJacq.

ivy-leaved morning-glory

WFO wfo-0000747944 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Ipomoea hederacea, photographed by vrschmalhofer
fig. a vrschmalhofer, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-06 / obs. 161957275
Ipomoea hederacea, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. b Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 162765382
Ipomoea hederacea, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. c Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 162764241
Ipomoea hederacea, photographed by Steven Bodzin
fig. d Steven Bodzin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159890823
Ipomoea hederacea, photographed by Elizabeth Axley
fig. e Elizabeth Axley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164251727
Ipomoea hederacea, photographed by CK2AZ
fig. f CK2AZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160332826
Ipomoea hederacea, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. g Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158274556
Ipomoea hederacea, photographed by Ira Gershenhorn
fig. h Ira Gershenhorn, CC0 1.0 / obs. 159300581

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 965 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 965 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 20 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cleiemera hederacea (Jacq.) Raf.
  • Cleiemera hirsuta Raf.
  • Convolvulus caeruleus (Roxb.) Spreng.
  • Ipomoea avicularis Raf.
  • Ipomoea barbata Roth
  • Ipomoea barbigera Sweet
  • Ipomoea desertorum House
  • Ipomoea hederacea var. integrifolia Hallier f.
  • Ipomoea limbata Boerl.
  • Ipomoea phymatodes Spreng.
  • Ipomoea scabrida Roem. & Schult.
  • Ornithosperma autumnalis Raf.
  • Pharbitis barbata (Roth) G.Don
  • Pharbitis barbigera (Sweet) G.Don
  • Pharbitis caerulescens (Roxb.) Sweet
  • Pharbitis hederacea (Jacq.) Choisy
  • Pharbitis polymorpha Siebold & de Vriese
  • Pharbitis purshii G.Don
  • Pharbitis scabrida (Roem. & Schult.) G.Don
  • Pharbitis triloba Miq.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.