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Ipomoea purpurea

(L.) Roth
Tracheophyta » Solanales » Convolvulaceae » Ipomoea purpurea
Common name (English)
Common morning-glory
Ηabitat
D5 Reedbeds
FA Hedgerows
X22 Non-domestic gardens (small)
X25 Domestic gardens (rural)
X10 Mixed landscapes
Global distribution

Mexico (Aguascalientes, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Ciudad de Mexico, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas), Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Argentina (Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Cordoba, Corrientes, Distrito Federal, Entre Rios, Jujuy, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Salta, Santa Fe, San Juan, Tucuman), S-Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina), Chile (Valparaiso, Reg. Metropolitana), Uruguay (Montevideo, Paysandu), Bolivia (Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, La Paz, Potos, Santa Cruz, Tarija), Colombia (Antioquia, Boyac, Caldas, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Huila, La Guajira, Magdalena, Putumayo, Santander, Tolima, Valle), Cuba (I), Hispaniola (I), Puerto Rico (I), Virgin Isl. (I) (St. Croix (I), St. Thomas (I), Tortola (I)), Ecuador, Peru, N-Brazil (Amazonas, Acre), NE-Brazil (Bahia), WC-Brazil (Goias, Distrito Federal), SE-Brazil (Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro), Venezuela (Aragua, Distrito Federal, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Tachira, Trujillo), Austria (I), Baleares (I), France (I), Greece (I), Spain (I), Portugal (I), Italy (I), Romania (I), Malta (I), Sicily (I), Croatia (I), Slovakia (I), European Russia (I), Northern Caucasus (I), Transcaucasus (I), Russian Far East (I), Uzbekistan (I), Tajikistan (I), Kazakhstan (I), Turkmenistan (I), Australia (I) (Queensland (I), New South Wales (I)), Taiwan (I), Korea (I), China (widespread (I)), Indonesia (I), Malesia (I), Myanmar [Burma] (I), Bangladesh (I), Nepal (I), Pakistan (I), Jammu & Kashmir (I), Philippines (I), Sri Lanka (I), New Caledonia (I), tropical Africa (I), Bioko Isl. (Fernando Poo) (I), Ethiopia (I), Eritrea (I), Uganda (I), Tanzania (I), Zambia (I), Zimbabwe (I), Mozambique (I), Mauritius (I), La Runion (I), Madagascar (I), South Africa (I) (widespread), Lesotho (I), Turkey (I) (SSW-Anatolia (I), E-Anatolia (I), NE-Anatolia (I)), Cyprus (I) (N-Cyprus (I)), Yemen (I) (N-Inner Yemen (I), W-Yemen (I)), East Aegaean Isl. (I), Madeira (I) (Madeira Isl. (I), Porto Santo Isl. (I)), Canary Isl. (I) (Gran Canaria (I)), Cape Verde Isl. (I) (Santo Antao Isl. (I), Sao Vicente Isl. (I), Ilha de Sao Nicolau (I), Ilha de Sao Tiago (I), Fogo Isl. (I), Ilha Brava (I)), Tunisia (I), Bhutan (I), India (I) (Darjeeling (I), etc.), Vietnam (I), USA (I) (Alabama (I), Arkansas (I), Arizona (I), California (I), Colorado (I), Connecticut (I), District of Columbia (I), Delaware (I), Florida (I), Georgia (I), Iowa (I), Illinois (I), Indiana (I), Kansas (I), Kentucky (I), Louisiana (I), Massachusetts (I), Maryland (I), Maine (I), Michigan (I), Minnesota (I), Missouri (I), Mississippi (I), Montana (I), North Carolina (I), North Dakota (I), Nebraska (I), New Hampshire (I), New Jersey (I), New Mexico (I), Nevada (I), New York (I), Ohio (I), Oklahoma (I), Oregon (I), Pennsylvania (I), Rhode Island (I), South Carolina (I), South Dakota (I), Tennessee (I), Texas (I), Utah (I), Virginia (I), Vermont (I), Washington State (I), Wisconsin (I), West Virginia (I)), Canada (I) (Ontario (I), Quebec (I)) 101199 0

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Habitat detail

Based on Georgiades (1995).

Establishment status
Not Established
Establishment status detail

Alien: Naturalized non-invasive. Waste ground near sea-level, introduced - the only listed location is in Division 7.

First detection year
1955
Pathway
2 ESCAPE FROM CONFINEMENT - Hortiulture – Hort
References

Meikle RD (1985) Flora of Cyprus, Vol. 2.

Georgiades C (1995) Η επιγενής χλωρίδα της Κύπρου. Ταξινομική, χλωριδικά, φυτογεωγραφική, οικοφυσιολογική μελέτη. [The adventive flora of Cyprus, taxonomic, floristic, phytogeographic, ecophysiological study]. Ph.D. Thesis, Athens University.

Hand R (2015) Supplementary notes to the flora of Cyprus VIII. Willdenowia 45(2): 245-259. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.45.45210

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Joint Service Health Unit
University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
Darwin Initiative
Akrotiri Environment

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