Cardinal creeper
Ipomoea horsfalliae Hook.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.5 m
- wide
- 2.4 m
Convolvulaceae
Also called Kuhio vine, Lady Doorly's morning-glory
Formerly Convolvulus horsfalliae
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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
- LianaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from the GuianasKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Chicago Botanic Garden, Top Tropicals and Bamboo Land, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: Chicago Botanic Garden full; Top Tropicals full, part; Bamboo Land full, part
- Height
- 2.0 m to 5.0 mRead from Bamboo Land, one source
- Spread
- 2.4 mRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Top Tropicals and Chicago Botanic Garden, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- RedRead from Chicago Botanic Garden and Top Tropicals, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Chicago Botanic Garden red; Top Tropicals magenta, pink, red
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Top Tropicals, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Japanese
- ゴヨウアサガオ
- Chinese (China)
- 王妃藤
- Russian
- Ипомея Хорсфолл
- Chinese
- 王子薯, 王妃藤
- Finnish
- prinsessanelämänlanka
- Spanish
- Campanitas de coral, Campanitas de coral (Puerto Rico)
- French
- Liane rouge à tonnelle (Lesser Antilles)
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Chicago Botanic Garden, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Top Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Bamboo Land, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Ipomoea horsfalliae (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.