Water Morning Glory
करमी सागவள்ளல்വയൽച്ചീര
Ipomoea aquatica Forssk.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 51 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Convolvulaceae
Also called Water spinach, Swamp cabbage, Ong choy, Swamp morning-glory
When it flowers
Flowers September to May in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing helophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Old WorldKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 51 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 30 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 蕹菜, 空心菜, 甕菜
- Indonesian
- Kangkung
- Japanese
- ヨウサイ, エンサイ, クウシンサイ
- Czech
- povijnice vodní
- Thai
- ผักบุ้ง
- Sinhala
- කංකුන්
- German
- Wasserspinat
- root
- Kangkum, Kangkong
- Russian
- Ипомея водяная
- Danish
- kangkong
- Chinese (China)
- 蕹菜, 空心菜, 通菜
- French
- Liseron d'eau
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Ipomoea aquatica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.