Taxon: Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr.

Common names:

• blue dawnflower   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• blue morning-glory   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• common morning-glory   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• morning-glory   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• ocean-blue morning-glory   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• perennial morning-glory   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• purple morning-glory   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• purple-flower bellvine   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• purple-flower morning-glory   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• tall morning-glory   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• purperwinde   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• bian se qian niu   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• indische Prunkwinde   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• no-asagao   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• gryningsvinda   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3, as I. acuminata; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed   (fide Dict Gard; Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu [s.], Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; Tonga

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa; Swaziland
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Indonesia
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Italy - Sicily; Malta
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida, Louisiana
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Bahamas; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Central America; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay

• also cultivated

References:

• 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 45:5.
• Austin, D. F. 1986. Nomenclature of the Ipomoea nil complex (Convolvulaceae). Taxon 35:357.
• Babu, C. R. 1977. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun.
• Baldwin, B. G. et al., eds. The Jepson manual: vascular plants of California (on-line resource).
• Bhandari, M. M. 1978. Flora of the Indian desert.
• CalFlora Database Project. CalFlora: a botanical resource for California on the internet (on-line resource).
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
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• 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.
• Fosberg, F. R. 1966. Critical notes on Pacific island plants part 1. Micronesica 2:151.
• Fosberg, F. R. 1976. Ipomoea indica taxonomy: a tangle of morning-glories. Bot. Not. 129:35–38.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
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• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
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• 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.
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• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Kress, W. J. et al., eds. Revised checklist of the plants of Myanmar (Burma) (on-line resource).
• Lejoly, J. & S. Lisowski. 1992. Les genres Merremia et Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) dans la flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi). Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 37:58.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
• Meeuse, A. D. J. & W. G. Welman. 1996. Convolvulaceae. New records, name changes and a new combination in southern Africa. Bothalia 26:48.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• NatureServe. 2009–. NatureServe Explorer: an online encyclopedia of life (on-line resource).
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ipomoea indica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ipomoea indica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ipomoea indica.

Synonyms:

• (=) Convolvulus acuminatus Vahl
  
• (≡) Convolvulus indicus Burm. (basionym)
  
• (=) Ipomoea acuminata (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Ipomoea cathartica Poir.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Ipomoea congesta R. Br.
  
• (=) Ipomoea learii Paxton
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Pharbitis cathartica (Poir.) Choisy
  

Check other web resources for Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr.:

• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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