Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine Flower

While the ornamental sweet potato plants don t often flower when blackie does it produces lavender or purple trumpet like flowers.

Ornamental sweet potato vine flower.

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. Sweet potato vine ipomoea batatas named for its edible cousin is an ornamental warm season annual grown for its attractive leaves and vining habit. The foliage lends a tropical feel to the garden and comes in a range of colors and varying forms. The ornamental sweet potato plant ipomoea butatas is somewhat different from its southern grown vegetable sibling.

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. This heat loving perennial will die back if the plant experiences hard freezes below 32 degrees fahrenheit 0 c. Although the plant works well as a ground cover it is especially effective. Ornamental sweet potato vine ipomoea batatas is valued for its colorful foliage and rapid easy care growth habits.

Popular varieties like marguerite have small round tubers while varieties like blackie have longer narrower tubers.