Data sources

Each value Trefle shows for Ipomoea cairica, with what every source says about it. When sources disagree, the strongest source is shown (how sources are ranked). Values imported before sources were recorded one by one are marked Source not recorded.

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Sourced5 Source not recorded9 Not on the record3 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database, Earlier Trefle data

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	(L.) Sweet	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Bibliography	Hort. Brit.: 287 (1826)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1826	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	Railroad-creeper	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	Trop. & S. Africa, W. Indian Ocean, Arabian Pen. to Temp. E. Asia	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Biological type	hemicryptophyte	hemicryptophyte · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 350, 877	Sourced
Flower color	white, purple	purple, white · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 3 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 350, 877, 882	Sourced
Fruit shape	capsule	capsule · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 5 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 350, 882	Sourced
Growth habit	Vine, Forb/herb	Vine, Forb/herb · Earlier Trefle data · Reported · 2026-10-19 value present before provenance tracking (2022 import), no source recorded	Sourced
Inflorescence type	empty	solitary · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 350	Not on the record
Vegetable	false	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phenology
Duration	perennial	perennial · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 4 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 882	Sourced
Fruit months	empty	aug · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 882	Not on the record
Other
Halophyte status	—	None · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 877	Not on the record

Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet, 1826 18% complete

Railroad-creeper

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