• Scientific Name: Ipomoea quamoclit L.
• Ref: Sp. Pl.:159. 1753
• Synonyms:
  • Incarvillea argyi H.Lév.
  • Clitocyamos pinnatifidus St.-Lag.
  • Convolvulus pennatifolius Salisb.
  • C. pennatus Desr.
  • C. pennifolius Drapiez
  • C. quamoclit (L.) Spreng.
  • Ipomoea cyamoclita St.-Lag.
  • Quamoclit pennata Bojer
  • Q. quamoclit (L.) Britton
  • Q. vulgaris Choisy
• English Common Name: cypress vine, cypressvine morning glory, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, hummingbird vine
• Chinese Common Name: 茑萝松 niǎoluó∙sōng, 茑萝 niǎoluó, 五角星花 wǔjiǎo∙xīng huā
• Japanese Common Name: ルコウソウ [縷紅草] rukōsō
• Family: Convolvulaceae
• Genus: Ipomoea
• Distribution: Distribution: Undoubtedly originally from the Americas and probably Mexico, now cultivated and naturalized in most of the tropical countries.

Climbers, the stems glabrous. Leaves 1-9 cm long, ovate to deeply pinnatisect with 9-19 alternate or opposite pairs of linear lobes, glabrous. Flowers solitary or in 2-5-flowered cymes. Sepals elliptic to oblong, 4-7 mm long, obtuse apically, with a 0.25-0.75 mm long mucrone, glabrous. Corolla red, 2-3 cm long, salverform. Fruit capsular, ovoid, 6-8 mm long. Seeds dark brown to black, with dark patches of short trichomes scattered somewhat irregularly. (Flora of Pakistan)