Habit: Annual, perennial herb from rhizome or caudex.
Stem: trailing to high-climbing.
Leaf: simple or palmately compound, petioled; blade cordate, lobed or not.
Inflorescence: bracts 0.
Flower: corolla generally +- funnel-shaped, not or barely lobed; style 1, stigma head-like or of 2--3 spheric lobes.
Fruit: spheric; valves 2--4.
Species In Genus: 500--600 species: tropics, warm temperate; some cultivated as ornamental or for food (
Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam., sweet-potato).
Etymology: (Greek: worm-like)
Note: Ipomoea lacunosa L. reported as urban weed from birdseed in Aptos, Santa Cruz Co.
Jepson eFlora Author: Daniel F. Austin
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Ipomoea
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