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Ipomoea triloba

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Ipomoea triloba. See image source here.

#493 They called me Ipomoea triloba, also known as Ipomoea krugii, and Ipomoea webbii. I pay homage to the male botanists Karl (Carl) Wilhelm Leopold Krug, and Colin James Webb, or Philip Barker Webb. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Portulaca pilosa

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Portulaca pilosa. See image source here.

#492 They called me Portulaca pilosa, also known as Portulaca karwinskii, and Portulaca ehrenbergii. I pay homage to the male botanists Karwinsk (I couldn’t find his records), and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kansas, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Southwest Caribbean, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Blepharocalyx eggersii

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Blepharocalyx eggersii. See image source here.

#485 They called me Blepharocalyx eggersii, also known as Neomitranthes castellanosii, Marlieriopsis eggersii, Mitranthes eggersii, and Mitranthes castellanosii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, and Alberto Castellanos. They first catalogued me in 1986.

Native to Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Guyana, Leeward Is., Peru, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..