Japanese morning glory

Ipomoea nil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Solanales
Family:	Convolvulaceae
Genus:	Ipomoea
Species:	I. nil
Binomial name
Ipomoea nil (L.) Roth

Japanese morning glory, also called the Ipomoea nil,^[1][2] is an attractive cultivated plant, a climbing annual commonly with white edges, also named white-edge morning glory. It is found in US Florida to South America, also in Galapagos Islands.^[3]

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References

1. Daniel F. Austin and Zosimo Huaman 1996 A Synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas It is also called the morning glory because it blooms in the morning. Taxon 45, 3-38
2. "Morning Glories Database : Section Pharbitis". protist.i.hosei.ac.jp. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
3. "Departamento de Biologia Vegetal - ACTA BOTANICA MALACITANA". biolveg.uma.es. Retrieved 13 April 2010.

Other websites

• Media related to Ipomoea nil at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Ipomoea nil at Wikispecies
• Plants and classification of genus Ipomoea
• Morning glories, moonflowers, and their relatives Archived 2011-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Decoding the genome of the Japanese morning glory