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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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Xanthosoma undipes

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#481 They called me Xanthosoma undipes, also known as Arum nigrum var. schottii, Xanthosoma jacquinii, Xanthosoma atrovirens var. kochii, and Xanthosoma atrovirens var. moritzii. I pay homage to the male botanists Johann Wilhelm Karl Moritz, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Heinrich Schott, Anton Schott, or Arthur Carl Victor Schott, and Karl Koch, Georg Friedrich Koch, Karl Heinrich Emil Koch, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch, or Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch. They first catalogued me in 1856.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Leeward Is., Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..