Ipomoea aquatica Forsk.

English: Water Spinach

German: Sumpf-Trichterwinde

Mandarin: 蕹菜 (weng cai)

Portuguese: Espinafre-d'água

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Solanales (99)

        Family: Convolvulaceae (43)(family description)

          Genus: Ipomoea (18)

            Epithet: aquatica Forsk. (2)

aquatica => living in water

Climate: tropical

Habitat: hydrophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: violet, pink, white

Check for Ipomoea aquatica at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

• [283] Ipomoea aquatica - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
• [1187] Ipomoea - Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database
• [1331] Ipomoea aquatica - Flora of China @ efloras.org

• [12] Dokosi, O.B. (1998): Herbs of Ghana. Ghana University Press, Accra, Ghana.