Large, showy tubular-funnel-form flowers on herbaceous vines. Often cultivated on fences. |
Dark green, heart-shaped leaves. Various shades of yellow possible. Throat might sometimes with purple tint. |
Leaves are distinct - palmately lobed. Widely distributed Kenya and the world. Flowers may be white also. |
Grows as straggling shrub in savanna/scrub lands. Large, white, pink-centered morning-glory with thick, almost succulent, heart-shaped leaves. |
Robust scrambling vine with large, glossy heart-shaped leaves. Exotic import from India. Reportedly medicinal. |
Upright herb without twining stems in sandy soil and apparently resistant to grazing animals. Leaves triangular with zig-zag teeth. |
Stems are weakly twining as they grow prostrate among savanna ground layer plants. |
This member of the Morning-Glory family came originally from tropical America. |
Succulent shrub forming low clumps in savanna habitat. Leaves linear and stems silvery. |
The flower limb and tube are nearly white and the vary narrow throat is purple. Deeply heart-shaped leaves. |
Slender vines trail on ground and twist around other plants. Small white or pastel flowers. |
Sky blue flowers with white centers about a centimeter across on low herbacous, non-twining stems. |
Prostrate herb with distinctly heart-shaped leaves. Flowers obscure. Often used as ground cover. |
Bright orange climbing stems without chlorophyl and without leaves. Small white flowers in clusters. Parasitic. Sometimes placed into a separate family, Cuscutaceae. |
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Michael J. Plagens, page created 7 March 2013,
Update 26 July 2017.
Disclaimer: By no means am I an expert on the Natural History of Kenya because I am new to exploring this part of the World. By creating a page for the species as I learn them I am teaching myself, sharing with others and hoping to receive feedback from web site visitors.