Japanese morning glory
കൃഷ്ണബീജംनिळी पुंगळी
Ipomoea nil (L.) Roth
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 5.0 m
- wide
- —
Convolvulaceae
Also called Ivy Morning Glory, Annua morning glory, Whiteedge morning-glory
Formerly Convolvulus caeruleus, Convolvulus coelestis, Convolvulus dillenii, Convolvulus hederaceus, and 26 more
When it flowers
Flowers January to October 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 annualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 5.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, red, pink, purple, blueRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
AcerolaFlowers November to December, when this does not
Arabian jasmineFlowers November to December, when this does not
AshokaFlowers November to December, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers November to December, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers November to December, when this does not
BrazilwoodFlowers November to December, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- amol, Campanilla, Campanilla azul
- Chinese
- 牽牛, 牽牛花, 牵牛
- Norwegian Bokmål
- lodnepraktvindel
- Japanese
- アサガオ, コアサガオ, 朝顔
- Chinese (China)
- 牵牛, 喇叭花
- Afrikaans
- Japanse purperwinde
- Portuguese
- Café-de-rama, jetirana, amarra-amarra
- Thai
- ว่านผักบุ้ง
- Korean
- 나팔꽃
- Polish
- wilec japoński
- Dutch
- Japanse pronkwinde
- German
- Blaue Prunkwinde
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
- 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
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Ipomoea nil (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.