Taxon: Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) R. Br.

Common names:

• bay hops   (Source: F WIndies Online ) – English
  
• bay winders   (Source: F WIndies Online ) – English
  
• beach morning-glory   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• goat's-foot   (Source: J.A.Duke, pers.comm.) – English
  
• goat's-foot-convolvulus   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• railroadvine   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• seaside yam   (Source: F LAnt ) – English
  
• hou teng   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• patate bord de mer   (Source: F LAnt ) – French
  
• patate marron   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Ziegenfuß-Prunkwinde   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• batata-de-mar   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• bejuco de playa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• boniata de playa   (Source: F WIndies Online ) – Spanish (Cuba)
  
• batatilla   (Source: F WIndies Online ) – Spanish (Domincan Republic)
  
• getfotsipomea   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Hortus 3)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:163. 1997)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide F ChinaEng; D. F. Austin, pers. comm. 1996)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Somalia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Congo; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Cape Province
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Yemen
  China: China - Fujian, Hainan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  North Indian Ocean: Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Christmas Island; Indonesia; Malaysia; New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Coral Sea Islands, Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia; Norfolk Island
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja California, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua; Bahamas; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Santa Catarina
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Egypt - Sinai
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Niue
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cayman Islands

• also cultivated

• exact native range obscure

References:

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• 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).
• Angely, J. A. 1965. Flora analitica do Parana.
• Austin, D. F. & Z. Huáman. 1996. A synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas. Taxon 45:9.
• Austin, D. F. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Berhaut, J. 1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal.
• Burkill, H. M. 1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa.
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• Duke, J. A. 2004. pers. comm.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
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• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
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• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
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• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Lejoly, J. & S. Lisowski. 1992. Les genres Merremia et Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) dans la flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi). Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 37:112.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
• Matuda, E. 1963. El género Ipomoea en México. Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México 34:104–106.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
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• Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states. [as I. pes-caprae var. emarginata Hallier].
• Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Convolvulus pes-caprae L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Ipomoea biloba Forssk.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) R. Br.:

• 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
• 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.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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