Ipomoea Plants

Ipomoea Plants make up one of the largest genuses in the flowering plant family Convolvulaceae, and has over 500 species. Including Morning Glories with their star-sapphire=shaped flowers, this genus also includes the Sweet Potato vine, which is grown for its remarkably-colored and uniquely-shaped foliage. Ipomoea is most often utilized as a “spiller” in hanging pots or as a ground cover.


Ipomoea, pronounced ip-oh-MEE-uh, prefers soil where it will not dry out completely. When grown in containers, once the top is dry to about 1-inch, water it and check regularly during really hot weather. Mixing Terra-Sorb® with your soil will increase its ability to retain water, in the garden or in the ground. Sweet Potato vines are also heavy feeders, so will benefit greatly from regular feeding with Espoma Plant-tone®.


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Ace of Spades Ipomoea Plant

Price $4.70

The 'Ace of Spades' Ipomoea Plant has vigorous trailing foliage with dark purplish-black, spade-shaped leaves. It has a high heat tolerance and will exhibit darker color when planted in partial shade. The Ace of Spades Sweet Potato Vine makes a great annual groundcover.

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Blackie Ipomoea Plant

Price $4.70

The 'Blackie' Ipomoea Plant has vigorous trailing foliage with dark, burgundy–black, maple-shaped leaves. Young plants are light green, maturing into rich, dark accent plants. Use Blackie Sweet Potato Vines to add texture to hanging baskets, containers and window boxes.

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Bronze Ipomea Plant

Price $4.70

The 'Bronze' Ipomea Plant is truly in a class all by itself. This phenomenal ornamental will highlight any landscape with its coppery-bronze coloration and deep burgundy veining. This one is showy, superbly immune to the heat and is a vigorous sun lover. It also thrives in full shade, though its growth will be slower. The Bronze Sweet Potato Vine has an amazing trailing habit in beds and as a "naturalizer", and cascades beautifully from containers and hanging baskets.

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Compact Margie Ipomea Plant

Price $4.70

The 'Compact Margie' Ipomea plant bears deeply lobed leaves in the most fantastic shade of lime green, infusing light into your partially shaded garden or shining to beat the band in the sun. This sweet potato plant is an exceptional candidate for containers, edges, borders and mass ground cover plantings.

Show product details for Illusion Garnet Lace Ipomoea Plant

Illusion Garnet Lace Ipomoea Plant

Price $6.90

Our 'Illusion™ Garnet Lace' Ipomoea Plant is so much more than just "garnet". The leaves on this Sweet Potato Vine emerge fresh spring green and then continue to change color, becoming russet before eventually changing to the garnet color that gives it its name. The resulting colorful collage takes on a lacy appearance as these deeply lobed leaves intertwine and mound, cascading over the sides of your containers or trailing to form a multicolored groundcover.

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Illusion Midnight Lace Ipomoea Plant

Price $6.90

Our 'Illusion™ Midnight Lace' Ipomoea Plant would make a simply stunning backdrop to white annuals or perennials, in containers or in the ground. Bearing extremely dissected dark bluish-purple leaves with vivid violet midribs, the foliage of this Sweet Potato Vine first emerges a soft bluish-green, resulting in a bicolored lacy collage as it cascades from its pot or trails along the ground in your perennial or annual garden bed.

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Marguerite Ipomoea Plant

Price $4.70

The 'Marguerite' Ipomoea Plant has brilliant lime-green to bright yellow-green foliage—a great contrast plant for any garden. This showy Sweet Potato Vine will show off its best color in partially shaded areas and can be prone to sunburn if exposed to lengthy afternoon sunlight.

Show product details for Sweet Caroline Bewitched Ipomoea Plant

Sweet Caroline Bewitched Ipomoea Plant

Price $6.60

Our 'Sweet Caroline™ Bewitched' Ipomoea Plant is brand new for 2012 and has beautifully textured, elegantly scalloped foliage with a superb combination of soft points and graceful curves. The color is also unusual, being glossy dark purple with just a hint of dark green undertones and which, when backlit, appears startlingly luminescent, showing off the delicate venation that contributes to the wonderful texture. Bewitched is an idyllic name for this Sweet Potato Vine!

Show product details for Sweet Caroline Green Yellow Ipomoea Plant

Sweet Caroline Green Yellow Ipomoea Plant

Price $6.60

The 'Sweet Caroline™ Green Yellow' Ipomoea Plant is showy, is unusual and is sure to be a conversation piece, whether spilling from your favorite hanging pots or spreading throughout your landscape or flower gardens. The foliage is deeply cut, contributing to the overall lacy appearance and is heavily mottled with lighter hues over bluish-green to yellow-green. A stunning backdrop for dark, richly hued blossoms, our Sweet Caroline Green Yellow Sweet Potato Vine is just as interesting planted alone. This ipomoea out-cascades most other varieties!

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Sweet Caroline Raven Ipomoea Plant

Price $6.60

Our 'Sweet Caroline™ Raven' Ipomoea Plant has leaves with only 3-lobes, but uses that design to perfection! Its gently curvaceous nature with soft, rounded tips makes for an elegant presentation, especially when combined with the purply-black coloration and heavy venation. The stems are a lighter violet, adding very pretty contrast. Try pairing this wonderful purple Sweet Potato Vine with white or yellow annuals.

Show product details for Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Light Green Ipomoea Plant

Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Light Green Ipomoea Plant

Price $6.60

Our 'Sweet Caroline™ Sweetheart Light Green' Ipomoea Plant is an incredibly vigorous grower that makes an exceptional ground cover and should only be grown with other plants that are just as vigorous. The heart-shaped leaves are a muted chartreuse color with a very thin, sometimes almost invisible, purple gilding. Heavy venation provides wonderful texture on this Sweet Potato Vine.

Show product details for Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Red Ipomoea Plant

Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Red Ipomoea Plant

Price $6.60

Our 'Sweet Caroline™ Sweetheart Red' Ipomoea Plant is so-named for its wonderful heart-shaped leaves that first emerge brilliant chartreuse, going through color changes as they mature, sometimes appearing light green, medium green, greenish-blue, bluish purple and finally a soft medium burgundy color. Even the midribs and veins go through a color change! What a delightful, multihued collage for a naturalized ground cover or for a mixed planting in a large container. This Sweet Potato Vine is a keeper!

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Tricolor Ipomoea Plant

Price $4.70

The 'Tricolor' Ipomoea Plant has striking green, light pink and white fan-shaped foliage that attracts attention in garden borders or patio containers. This Sweet Potato Vine may be small in size but is huge in terms of impact!