This herbaceous vine has a twining habit covering structures with slender stems and dark green thread-like leaves. The funnel-shaped scarlet flowers appear in clusters during summer and sporadically throughout the year in tropical climates.

Hardiness zones 8 to 12 

Ipomoea quamoclit is naturally found in tropical South America growing in well-drained moderately fertile moist soils. It prefers a  protected sunny position and is frost and drought tender.

Star Glory is a vine that is planted for its colourful flowers and its fast growth rate. It is grown on wire fences or over structures as a quick screen or for garden colour. It establishes from seed in one year and is suitable as a container plant or as a specimen in a tropical setting. ID 1569

Ipomoea (ip-oh-MEE-uh) quamoclit (KWAM-oh-klit)

Convolvulaceae (kon-volv-yoo-LAY-see-ee)
Morning Glories and Bindweeds