kingdom: Plantae >
subkingdom: Pteridobiotina Britton & Brown >
phylum: Tracheophyta >
class: Magnoliopsida >
family: Convolvulaceae Juss. >
subfamily: Convolvuloideae Burnett >
genus: Ipomoea L. >
Zambia [I]; Zimbabwe [I]; Mozambique [I]; Mexico (Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Chiapas, Ciudad de Mexico, Colima, Durango, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Jalisco, México State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Sinaloa, Sonora, Zacatecas); Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Colombia (Boyacá); Ecuador; Peru