Ipomoea umbellata Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 924. 1759.

["Habitat in America."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 227 (1762). RCN: 1273.

Lectotype (Staples & Austin in Staples & Jarvis in Taxon 55: 1023. 2006): [icon] " Ipomoea foliis digitatis, pedunculis umbellatis brevissimis" in Plumier in Burman, Pl. Amer.: t. 92, f. 2. 1756.

Current name: Ipomoea carolina L. ( Convolvulaceae).

Note: Often wrongly stated to be the basionym of Merremia umbellata (L.) Hallier f, the latter in fact being based on Convolvulus umbellata L. (1753), an entirely different species.