Oceanblue morning glory
Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr.
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Convolvulaceae
Also called Blue morning glory, Blue Dawn Flower, Purple Morning Glory, Perennial Morning Glory, Oceanblue Morning Glory
Formerly Convolvulus acuminatus, Convolvulus amoenus, Convolvulus bogotensis, Convolvulus congestus, and 41 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year 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 perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Flowers
- Red, pink, purple, blueRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 7 °C (USDA zone 11b)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- bejuco blanco, Campanilla, Bejuco de gloria
- root
- sacaca-maiyac, Oliimad
- Portuguese
- bons-dias
- Hawaiian
- koali `awa
- Chinese
- 變色牽牛, 銳葉牽牛
- Italian
- campanella gigante
- French
- Ipomée des Indes, Ipomée d'Inde
- Japanese
- ノアサガオ
- Russian
- Ипомея индийская
- Chinese (China)
- 变色牵牛
- Catalan
- Campanera morada, Campanetes de jardí
- Greek
- Ιπομέα των Δυτικών Ινδιών
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0 br
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
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