Hairy wood-rose

Ipomoea aegyptia Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 162. 1753

Stems usually hirsute. Leaf blades ± orbiculate, palmately compound, 25–150 × 25–170 mm, (3–)5(–7)-foliolate; leaflets elliptic to oblanceolate, margins dentate or entire, sur­faces sparsely to densely hir­sute, glabrescent. Inflorescences 2–3+-flowered cymes or flowers solitary. Flowers: sepals oblong, 20 mm, apex acute, abaxial surface hirsute, glabrescent; corolla white, 20–40 × 20–30 mm.

Flowering Oct–Feb. Disturbed sites, fields, roadsides; 0–10 m; introduced; Fla.; Mexico; West Indies; Central America; South America; introduced also in Old World subtropics and tropics.