Sweet potato
Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.0 m
- wide
- —
Convolvulaceae
Formerly Batatas betacea, Batatas edulis, Batatas wallii, Convolvulus apiculata, and 27 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Venezuela and EcuadorKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 3.0 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 0.5–4 m; Plants for a Future 3–3 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- PinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Chinese
- 甘藷, 地瓜, 甘薯
- Simplified Chinese
- 山芋, 地瓜, 甘薯
- Slovenian
- sladki krompir
- Vietnamese
- khoai lang
- Asturian
- pataquera duce
- Nepali
- सखरखण्ड
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Ipomoea batatas (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.