Taxon: Ipomoea quamoclit L.

Common names:

• cardinal-climber   (Source: Pacif I Ecosyst Risk ) – English
  
• cypressvine   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• cypressvine morning-glory   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  
• hummingbird-vine   (Source: Pacif I Ecosyst Risk ) – English
  
• Indian-pink   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• red-jasmine   (Source: F Bhutan ) – English
  
• star-glory   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• star-of-Bethlehem   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sweet-Willy   (Source: F LAnt ) – English
  
• cheveux de Venus   (Source: F LAnt ) – French
  
• liane rouge   (Source: F LAnt ) – French
  
• Zypressen-Prunkwinde   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• rukō-sō   (Source: F Okin ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• cambustera   (Source: F WIndies Online ) – Spanish
  
• clavellina   (Source: F Mesoamer ) – Spanish
  
• regadero   (Source: F LAnt ) – Spanish
  
• clarín   (Source: F Mesoamer ) – Spanish (El Salvador)
  
• clarincillo   (Source: F Mesoamer ) – Spanish (El Salvador)
  
• bejuco de ciprés   (Source: F WIndies Online ) – Spanish (Puerto Rico)
  
• bejuco de coral   (Source: F WIndies Online ) – Spanish (Puerto Rico)
  
• fjäderstjärnvinda   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Gard Dict; Hortus 3)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Dominican Republic; Haiti
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama

• AFRICA
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon
  West Tropical Africa: Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Singapore
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Samoa
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Bahamas; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador - Galapagos Islands; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay

• also cultivated

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Austin, D. F. & Z. Huáman. 1996. A synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas. Taxon 45:10.
• Babu, C. R. 1977. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun.
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31.
• Bhandari, M. M. 1978. Flora of the Indian desert.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Burkill, H. M. 1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa.
• Cabrera, A. L. & E. M. Zardini. 1978. Manual de la flora de los alrededores de Buenos Aires.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. [= Quamoclit pennata].
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. [= Quamoclit vulgaris].
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Fosberg, F. R. et al. 1979–1982. Geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae/ Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hara, H. Flora of eastern Himalaya. v. 1:1966, v. 2:1971, v. 3:1975
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Lejoly, J. & S. Lisowski. 1992. Les genres Merremia et Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) dans la flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi). Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 37:60.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980-
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• O'Donell, C. A. 1959. Convolvuláceas argentinas. Lilloa 29:227.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Pulle, A. A. et al., eds. 1932–. Flora of Suriname.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• The Missouri Botanical Garden with others. A Catalogue of the vascular plants of Madagascar (on-line resource).
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

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Synonyms:

• (=) Convolvulus pennatus Desr.
  
• (=) Quamoclit pennata (Desr.) Bojer
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)
• (=) Quamoclit vulgaris Choisy
  

Check other web resources for Ipomoea quamoclit L.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Images:

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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