Ipomoea pandurataG.Mey.

wild potato vine

WFO wfo-0001297256 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Ipomoea pandurata, photographed by Mike Tilley
fig. a Mike Tilley, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205197327
Ipomoea pandurata, photographed by Bonnie Semmling
fig. b Bonnie Semmling, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202344462
Ipomoea pandurata, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. c Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200158102
Ipomoea pandurata, photographed by Mary G
fig. d Mary G, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160507101
Ipomoea pandurata, photographed by Nonbinary-Naturalist
fig. e Nonbinary-Naturalist, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197139854
Ipomoea pandurata, photographed by Daniel Patterson
fig. f Daniel Patterson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157348860
Ipomoea pandurata, photographed by mefisher
fig. g mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 157698023
Ipomoea pandurata, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. h Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 156777180

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

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 = 1,934 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 1,934 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 11 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 candicans Sol.
  • Convolvulus ciliolatus Michx.
  • Convolvulus panduratus L.
  • Ipomoea candicans (Sol. ex Sims) Sweet
  • Ipomoea ciliolata Pers.
  • Ipomoea ciliosa Pursh
  • Ipomoea pandurata f. leviuscula Fernald
  • Ipomoea pandurata var. candicans (Sol. ex Sims) Choisy
  • Ipomoea pandurata var. hastata Chapm.
  • Ipomoea pandurata var. rubescens Choisy
  • Ipomoea schrenkiana Peter

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.