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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Ipomoea''
| image = Ipomoea imperati1.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = ''Ipomoea imperati''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Solanales]]
| familia = [[Convolvulaceae]]
| genus = '''''Ipomoea'''''
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}

The [[genus]] '''''Ipomoea''''', with over 500 species, is the largest genus in the family [[Convolvulaceae]]. Most of the species bear the common name Morning Glory. The genus occurs throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, and comprises [[annual plant|annual]] and [[perennial plant|perennial]] [[herbaceous]] plants, [[liana]]s, [[shrub]]s and small [[tree]]s; most of the species are twining climbing plants. Many species are known as [[morning glory]], a name shared with some other related genera.

The genus includes important [[food]] crops ([[sweet potato]] and [[Ipomoea aquatica|water spinach]]) and ''[[Ipomoea violacea|I. violacea]]'', source of the Mexican [[psychedelic]] drug, ''[[tlitliltzin]]''. Species and cultivars of ''Ipomoea'' grown as [[morning glory]] are popular in gardens for their often stunning flowers.

''Ipomoea'' species are used as food plants by the [[larva]]e of some [[Lepidoptera]] species - see [[list of Lepidoptera which feed on Ipomoea]].

;Selected species
*''[[Ipomoea alba]]'' L. – Moonflower
*''[[Ipomoea amnicola]]'' Morong – Redcenter Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea aquatica]]'' – Water spinach
*''[[Ipomoea asarifolia]]''
*''[[Sweet potato|Ipomoea batatas]]'' (L.) Lam. – Sweet potato
*''[[Ipomoea cairica]]'' Sweet. - Mile-a-minute vine
*''[[Ipomoea coccinea]]''
*''[[Ipomoea cordatotriloba]]''
*''[[Ipomoea cordifolia]]'' Carey ex Voight – Heartleaf Morning Glory
*''[[ Ipomoea costata]]'' Australian Bush Potato
*''[[Ipomoea costellata]]'' Torr. – Crestrib Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea cristulata]]'' Hallier f. – Transpecos Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea dumetorum]]'' Willd. ex Roemer & J.A.Schultes – Railwaycreeper
*''[[Ipomoea eggersiana]]'' Peter
*''[[Ipomoea eggersii]]'' (House) D.Austin – Egger's Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea hederacea]]'' Jacq. – Ivyleaf Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea hederifolia]]'' L. – Scarlet Creeper
*''[[Ipomoea horsfalliae]]'' Hook.f. – Lady Doorly's Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea imperati]]'' (Vahl) Griseb. – Beach Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea indica]]'' (Burm.f.) Merr. – Oceanblue Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea jalapa]]'' (L.) Pursh. – Jalap
*''[[Ipomoea krugii]]'' Urban – Krug's White Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea lacunosa]]'' L. – Whitestar
*''[[Ipomoea leptophylla]]'' Torr. – Bush Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea lindheimeri]]'' Gray – Lindheimer's Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea littoralis]]'' Blume – Whiteflower beach Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea lobata]]'' (Cerv.) Thell. - Spanish Flag or Fire Vine
*''[[Ipomoea longifolia]]'' Benth. – Pinkthroat Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea macrorhiza]]'' Michx. – Largeroot Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea mauritiana]]'' Jacq. – Giant Potato
*''[[Ipomoea meyeri]]'' (Spreng.) G.Don – Meyer's Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea microdactyla]]'' Griseb. – Calcareous Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea nil]]'' (L.) Roth – White-edge Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea obscura]]'' (L.) Ker Gawl. – Obscure Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea ochracea]]'' (Lindl.) G.Don – Fence Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea pandurata]]'' (L.) G.F.W.Mey. – Wild Potato Vine or Manroot
*''[[Ipomoea pes-caprae]]'' (L.) R.Br. – Beach Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea plummerae]]'' Gray – Huachuca Mountain Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea pubescens]]'' Lam. – Silky Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea purga]]'' (Wender.) Hayne – Jalap
*''[[Ipomoea purpurea]]'' (L.) Roth – Common Morning Glory or Tall Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea quamoclit]]'' L. – Cypress Vine or Cardinal Vine
*''[[Ipomoea repanda]]'' Jacq. – Bejuco Colorado
*''[[Ipomoea rupicola]]'' House – Cliff Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea sagittata]]'' Poir. – Saltmarsh Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea setifera]]'' Poir. – Bejuco de Puerco
*''[[Ipomoea setosa]]'' Ker Gawl. – Brazilian Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea shumardiana]]'' (Torr.) Shinners – Narrowleaf Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea X sloteri]]'' – Cardinal Climber [''I. coccinea'' X ''I. quamoclit'']
*''[[Ipomoea steudelii]]'' Millsp. – Steudel's Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea tenuiloba]]'' Torr. – Spiderleaf
*''[[Ipomoea tenuissima]]'' Choisy – Rockland Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea ternifolia]]'' Cav. – Tripleleaf Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea thurberi]]'' Gray – Thurber's Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea tricolor]]'' Cav. – Tlitliltzin, Ololiuqui or Mexican Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea triloba]]'' L. – Littlebell
*''[[Ipomoea tuberosa]]'' L.
*''[[Ipomoea tuboides]]'' O.Deg. & van Ooststr. – Hawaii Morning Glory
*''[[Ipomoea turbinata]]'' Lag. – Lilacbell
*''[[Ipomoea violacea]]'' L. – Beach moonflower
*''[[Ipomoea versicolor]]'' Meisn.
*''[[Ipomoea wrightii]]'' Gray – Wright's Morning Glory

<gallery>
Image:Ipomoea indica 3.jpg|''Ipomoea indica''
Image:Koeh-077.jpg|''Ipomoea purga''
Image:Ipomoea purpurea pollen.jpg|Scanning electron micrograph of Ipomoea purpurea pollen.
Image:Ipomoea_pandurata_20070816_01a.jpg|''Ipomoea pandurata'' in bloom.
</gallery>



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