Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine Flower

Although the plant works well as a ground cover it is especially effective.

Ornamental sweet potato vine flower.

Ipomoea batatas sweet caroline this variety is not just one coloration of plant but includes five separate color options yellowish green red purple bronze and light green varieties are available. Popular varieties like marguerite have small round tubers while varieties like blackie have longer narrower tubers. While the ornamental sweet potato plants don t often flower when blackie does it produces lavender or purple trumpet like flowers. The ornamental sweet potato plant ipomoea butatas is somewhat different from its southern grown vegetable sibling.

This heat loving perennial will die back if the plant experiences hard freezes below 32 degrees fahrenheit 0 c. Ipomoea butatas or sweet potato vine thrives in hot tropical climates and is an ornamental foliage plant often used as a foil for flowering displays. That means the tubers it forms are actually edible. Sweet potato vine ipomoea batatas named for its edible cousin is an ornamental warm season annual grown for its attractive leaves and vining habit.

Often grown in container gardens for its trailing stems of purple chartreuse or variegated foliage ornamental sweet potato vine is actually related to the sweet potatoes you d grow in your vegetable garden.