Taxon: Ipomoea hederacea Jacq.

Common names:

• ivy-leaf morning-glory   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Sonora, Tamaulipas
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Guerrero
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Honduras; Mexico - Chiapas, Yucatan
  Caribbean: Dominican Republic; Haiti
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador

• widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya. (F Libya)
• Austin, D. F. & Z. Huáman. 1996. A synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas. Taxon 45:7.
• Austin, D. F. 1986. Nomenclature of the Ipomoea nil complex (Convolvulaceae). Taxon 35:356.
• Austin, D. F. 1998. Convolvulaceae. Morning glory family. J. Arizona-Nevada Acad. Sci. 30:69.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. (F Bahamas)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13) [= Pharbitis hederacea (Jacq.) Choisy].
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
• Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol. (Aquat SE US)
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador. (F Ecuador) [mentions].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969 (F CubaLeon)
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan. (F Taiwan)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. (F Philipp)
• Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora. (F CalifMunz)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert. (F SonorDes)
• Steward, A. N. 1958. Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze valley. (F LowYangtze)
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Verdcourt, B. 1957. Taxon 6:231.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
• Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California. (F Baja)
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida. (F Florida)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ipomoea hederacea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ipomoea hederacea. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Ipomoea barbigera Sweet
  
• (≡) Pharbitis hederacea (Jacq.) Choisy
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other databases for Ipomoea hederacea Jacq.:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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