Ipomoea pes-tigridis var. pes-tigridis Lour.

Annual or sometimes perennial herb. Stems trailing, with long spreading yellow bristly hairs (as have petioles and peduncles), 0.5-2.0 m long. Leaves orbicular to almost reniform in outline, base broadly cordate, palmate-pedately 5-11-lobed, 30-90 x 40-120 mm, segments oblong to elliptic, apex acute, base narrow, thinly pilose on both surfaces; petiole 15-100 mm long. Inflorescence a bracteate few-flowered head; peduncle 20-180 mm long, outer bracts foliaceous, linear-oblong to oblong, 15-30 mm long, densely hirsute-pilose, inner bracts smaller. Sepals lanceolate, pilose-hirsute, 7-12 mm long. Corolla funnel-shaped, white to blue or purple with darker throat, 30-55 mm long, limb as much wide, sparsely pilose on midpetaline areas. Capsule ovoid, brown, glabrous, ±8 mm long. Seeds brown with a white pubescence, ±4 mm long.