Do Patti Lata / Goat's Foot Creeper
Ipomoea pes-caprae
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa & more
- Flowering
- October-March
How to identify Do Patti Lata
Identify Do Patti Lata by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Grows on beach sand dunes, goat's-foot-shaped leaves.
- Confirm leaf shape: Thick, fleshy, notched at tip (goat's foot shape).
- Confirm flower colour: Pink.
- Confirm fruit type: Capsule.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: October-March.
- In India, compare location records such as Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Maharashtra and nearby regions.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Ipomoea pes-caprae
- Genus
- Ipomoea
- Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Sandy sea coasts and mangrove forests, also in the plains
- Distribution
- Pantropical
- Found in India
- Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Odisha, Puducherry, West Bengal, Lakshadweep, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Madhya Pradesh, Daman & Diu, Telangana, Rajasthan
- Flowering & fruiting
- October-March
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Thick, fleshy, notched at tip (goat's foot shape)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Do Patti Lata itself; the rest are typical of the Convolvulaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Pinkrecorded
- Fruit type
- CapsulerecordedA dry fruit from a fused ovary that splits open at maturity to release seeds.“The fruit is a capsule containing 4 hairy seeds that float in water.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Do Patti Lata itself; the rest are typical of the Convolvulaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- दो पत्ती लता Do Patti Lata
- Tamil
- Attukkal
- Telugu
- Balabantatige
- Kannada
- ಅಡಂಬು Adambu, ಅಡಂಬಳ್ಳಿ Adamballi, ದಾಸರಿ Dasari
- Malayalam
- നാരീപദമ് Naripadam, Pulichuvadi, Pulichuvatu
- Marathi
- मर्यादा वेल Maryada-vel
About Do Patti Lata
A member of the Convolvulaceae family, Goat's foot creeper (Ipomoea pes-caprae) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa and 13 other states. It grows in sandy sea coasts and mangrove forests, also in the plains. Flowering and fruiting run from October to March.
Uses
It is long used in traditional medicine. Those medicinal uses are traditional attributions, not medical advice.
Convolvulaceae
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Do Patti Lata belongs to the Convolvulaceae family.
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