Ipomoea indica(Burm.) Merr.

oceanblue morning glory

WFO wfo-0001297295 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Ipomoea indica, photographed by pavlaki1968
fig. a pavlaki1968, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 202990645
Ipomoea indica, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. b Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204035023
Ipomoea indica, photographed by Paul Mnich
fig. c Paul Mnich, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205148801
Ipomoea indica, photographed by Elizabete Marchante
fig. d Elizabete Marchante, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201598223
Ipomoea indica, photographed by Elizabete Marchante
fig. e Elizabete Marchante, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199390421
Ipomoea indica, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. f Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199165864
Ipomoea indica, photographed by Ricard Busquets Reverte
fig. g Ricard Busquets Reverte, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205458611
Ipomoea indica, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. h Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196243435

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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 = 3,826 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 3,826 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 57 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.

  • Convolvulus acuminatus Vahl
  • Convolvulus africanus Nicolson bis
  • Convolvulus bogotensis Kunth
  • Convolvulus bogotensis f. albiflorus Kuntze
  • Convolvulus bogotensis f. lilacinus Kuntze
  • Convolvulus congestus (R.Br.) Spreng.
  • Convolvulus indicus Burm.
  • Convolvulus mutabilis (Lindl.) Spreng.
  • Convolvulus portoricensis Spreng.
  • Convolvulus pudibundus Lindl.
  • Convolvulus ruizii Spreng.
  • Ipomoea acuminata Roem. & Schult.
  • Ipomoea acuminata f. albiflora (B.C.Stone) E.Walker
  • Ipomoea acuminata var. burckii Boerl.
  • Ipomoea bogotensis G.Don
  • Ipomoea cataractae Endl.
  • Ipomoea cathartica Poir.
  • Ipomoea congesta R.Br.
  • Ipomoea congesta f. albiflora (B.C.Stone) E.Walker & Tawada
  • Ipomoea halierca I.M.Johnst.
  • Ipomoea indica f. alba H.St.John
  • Ipomoea indica var. acuminata (Vahl) Fosberg
  • Ipomoea insularis (Choisy) Steud.
  • Ipomoea jamaicensis var. glabrata Griseb.

and 33 more.

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.