| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea alba | Moonflower, Tropical Morning-glory | Hammocks, marsh edges, disturbed areas. | Ne. FL south to s. FL; Mexico south through Central America to Argentina; West Indies. Whether or not Ipomoea alba is native or introduced in our region is unclear. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea amnicola | Red-eye Morning-glory | Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of n. and c. South America. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea aquatica | Water-spinach, Kangkung | Disturbed wetlands. | Native of tropical Asia. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea aristolochiifolia | Tree Morning-glory | Edges of resacas, disturbed areas. | Native of montane Central and South America. | |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea asarifolia | Ginger-leaf Morning-glory | Disturbed areas. | Native of Central and South America. | |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea batatas | Sweet Potato | Persistent in fields after cultivation, disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea batatilla | Bush Morning-glory | Persistent from cultivation in suburban gardens, sandy soils of barrier islands. | Native of w. Brazil and e. Bolivia. | |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea brasiliensis | Railroad Vine, Goat’s-foot, Bay Hops, Bay Winders | Ocean beaches, dunes. | E. NC (Carteret County), SC (Beaufort, Horry, Charleston, Colleton, and Georgetown counties), south to s. FL, west to TX, and widespread on tropical and subtropical shores of the New World (se. United States, West Indies, Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Central America and South America), and Old World (Atlantic and Indian Ocean coasts of Africa). The records in the Carolinas may reflect the periodic arrival of sea-borne seeds. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea cairica | Mile-a-minute Vine, Cairo Morning-glory | Disturbed areas. | Native of Africa. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea coccinea | Scarlet Creeper, Red Morning-glory | Fields, roadsides, thickets, streambanks. | Unquestionably native of the se. United States, though the details of the pre-Columbian distribution are uncertain. Wood et al. (2020b) stated "endemic to southeastern USA, where it grows on waste ground, roadsides, stream sides and in ditches, apparently with a preference for seasonally moist habitats." |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea cordatotriloba var. cordatotriloba | Coastal Morning-glory, Tie-vine | Dunes, sandy areas on barrier islands, other sandy habitats. | Se. NC south to s. FL, west to e. TX and AR; Mexico. Attribution of this species to South America are based on Ipomoea australis (Wood et al. 2020). |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea cordatotriloba var. torreyana | Torrey's Morning-glory | Prairies, disturbed areas. | TX southwards into Mexico (CHH, NLE, TAM). | |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea corymbosa | Christmas-vine, Aguinaldo Blanco, Aguinaldo de Pascua | Hammocks, shell mounds, disturbed areas. | S. peninsular FL; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America. Very likely native, occurring in hammocks and shell mounds, where probably moved by native Americans. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea costellata | Crestrib Morning-glory | Open woodlands and scrub, disturbed areas. | Sc. and s. TX, NM, and AZ, south to Mexico. | |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea cristulata | Star-glory | Weakly persistent or spread from cultivation. | Native of w. TX, NM, AZ south to Mexico; used horticulturally and sparsely if at all established in our region. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea edwardsensis | Edwards Plateau Morning-glory | Rocky areas over limestone. | Endemic to Edwards Plateau (and nearly areas) of c. TX, barely reaching our region in Guadeloupe County, TX. | |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea grandifolia | Disturbed areas. | South America (Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil); also in se. North America, the distribution poorly understood because of previous lack of recognition. |  | |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea hederacea | Ivyleaf Morning-glory | Fields, disturbed areas. | ME, MN, ND, NM, AZ, and CA south to s. FL, s. TX, and Mexico; Cuba. Native to the southeastern United States (the core of its distribution), but the more precise limits of its native distribution are obscure (populations in New England, Ontario, and the n. Midwestern US may be only adventive). Its current distribution is centered in southeastern North America and it was encountered there by "early botanists" Michaux and Pursh in the first decades of the 1800s, but its current genetic structure suggests that it may have been introduced (Campitelli & Stinchcombe 2014), but if so, from where? Austin (in Davidse et al. 2012) considered its area of nativity to to be the southeastern United States. Austin (1986) also described it as "a temperate plant that grows poorly, if at all, in tropical climes" (in contrast to Ipomoea nil). |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea hederifolia | Scarlet Creeper | Moist thickets (especially near-coastal), disturbed areas. | GA and AL, south to s. FL, west to MS; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America. Some of the more inland occurrences likely represent an adventive range extension from horticultural use. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea imperati | Beach Morning-glory | Beaches, dune blowouts, fore-dunes. | Se. NC south to s. FL, west to TX; south through Mexico, Central America to South America; West Indies; Old World tropics. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea indica var. acuminata | Ocean-blue Morning-glory | Hammocks, coastal areas, disturbed areas. | FL west to TX; West Indies, Mexico; Central and South America. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea lacunosa | Small White Morning-glory, Whitestar | Riverbanks, marshes, swamps, fields, roadsides, disturbed areas. | NJ west to OH, IL, and KS, south to FL and e. TX. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea leptophylla | Bush Morning-glory | Sandy prairies, disturbed areas. | SD and MT south to TX and NM. | |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea leucantha | Whitestar Morning-glory | Disturbed areas, roadsides. | "Occurs sporadically, principally in the eastern United States and in Central America south to Ecuador and Brazil" (Wood et al. 2020). |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea macrorhiza | Indian-midden Morning-glory, Manroot, Pink Moonvine, Largeroot Morning-glory | Hammocks, shell middens, dunes, dry sands, mesic pine flatwoods, disturbed maritime areas. | Se. NC south to s. FL, west to s. AL. Sometimes, as by WH3 and K2, this species is considered an alien, native of South America, but this is nonsense -- the species is endemic to the se. United States. (Austin 2023n; D. Austin, pers. comm. 2011; Wood et al. 2020). |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea microdactyla | Wild-potato Morning-glory, Man-in-the-ground, Bejuco colorado | Pine rocklands. | S. peninsular FL; West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba, Mona Island of Puerto Rico). |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea multifida | Cardinal Climber | Cultivated and escaping or persistent locally near plantings. | Horticulturally-derived hybrid of a tropical American (I. quamoclit) and Southeastern US (I. coccinea) parents. | |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea muricata | Lilacbell, Purple Moonflower | Fields, disturbed areas; native (apparently) of Mexico. | Austin & Jansson (1988) discussed the species’ spread in se. United States, apparently as a contaminant in soybean seeds. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea nervosa | Woolly Morning-glory, Elephant Creeper | Disturbed hammocks. | Native of India. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea nil | Disturbed areas. | Occurs in scattered states, such as MD and MS, as a rare introduction from tropical America (Kartesz 1999). | ||
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea pandurata | Wild Sweet Potato, Manroot, Man-of-the-earth, Bigroot Morning-glory | Longleaf pine sandhills, dry forests and woodlands, prairies, roadbanks, disturbed areas. | CT, NY, and s. ON west to OH, s. MI, and KS, south to c. peninsular FL and e. TX. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea purpurea | Common Morning-glory | Fields, disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea quamoclit | Cypress-vine | Fields, hedgerows, disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea rupicola | Cliff Morning-glory | Rocky open areas. | S. and w. TX south to adjacent Mexico (COA, NLE, SLP, TAM). | |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea sagittata | Saltmarsh Morning-glory | Edges of brackish marshes, moist thickets on barrier islands, hammocks. | E. NC south to s. FL, west to TX; eastern Mexico and Central America; West Indies. Also present in the Old World, around the Mediterranean and in n. Africa (the type is from Africa); this distribution is likely from early anthropogenic dispersal from the West Indies. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea setosa ssp. sepacuitensis | Brazilian Morning-glory | Disturbed areas. | Native of Central America (Belize). |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea shumardiana | Narrowleaf Morning-glory | Sandy or sandy-clay prairies. | E. and c. KS south through e. and c. OK to n. TX. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea tenuissima | Rockland Morning-glory | Pine rocklands. | S. peninsular FL; West Indies (Cuba, Hispaniola, apparently introduced in Puerto Rico). |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea tricolor | Heavenly Blue Morning-glory | Persistent or slightly escaped from horticultural use. | Native of tropical America (Mexico to South America and West Indies). Reported for several locations in se. PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993). |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea triloba | Little-bell | Hammocks, sand dunes, disturbed areas. | Apparently native of tropical America. West Indies; New World and Old World tropics. |  |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea violacea | Beach Moonflower, Moonvine | Coastal strands and dunes, maritime hammocks. | S. FL; West Indies, s. Mexico, Central America, and n. South America. | |
| Convolvulaceae | Ipomoea wrightii | Wright’s Morning-glory | Disturbed areas. | Native of India. Reported as likely naturalized in central TN, "spreading northward from the Gulf Coastal Plain" (Kral 1981). It also is known from GA (Kartesz 1999). |  |
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