Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine

Ipomoea batatas

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Overview

The Ipomoea batatas 'Medusa™ Green' is a mounding-trailing ornamental sweet potato vine with palm-shaped green leaves and subtle purple accents. It grows 6-12 inches tall and spreads 18-30 inches wide. Best in part sun to full sun with average, well-drained soil and regular moisture, it excels as a lush filler, groundcover, or container plant. Hardy in USDA Zones 11a-11b.

Water Medium

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — It grows 6-12 inches tall and spreads 18-30 inches wide

Culture

Water: Medium

Shape & size

Mature height: 0.5–1 Ft.
Mature width: 1.5–2.5 Ft.

Classification

Family: Convolvulaceae

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Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — Deadheading is unnecessary

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — compost or a balanced fertilizer supports strong growth

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — architectural filler in mixed planters

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — where its mounded form can knit together flowering annuals without immediately overwhelming them

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — It is equally handsome spilling gently from hanging baskets

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — Its sculptural foliage gives containers a polished

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — edging warm-season borders

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — designer finish while adding fresh green movement to patios

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — It grows 6-12 inches tall and spreads 18-30 inches wide; it excels as a lush filler

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — Best in part sun to full sun with average; loose trails like many ornamental sweet potato vines

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — well-drained soil and regular moisture; but is grown widely as a warm-season annual across most

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — it excels as a lush filler; compost or a balanced fertilizer supports strong growth

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — Hardy in USDA Zones 11a-11b; designer finish while adding fresh green movement to patios

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — The Ipomoea batatas 'Medusa™ Green'; commonly referred to as Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — commonly referred to as Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine; the effect is lush and

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — is a distinctive foliage annual from the Proven Winners® collection; where its foliage stays

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — Rather than racing outward in long; well-drained soil and regular moisture

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — billowing presence and unusual palm-shaped leaves; where its mounded form can knit together

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — Medusa™ Green forms a rounded; it is technically hardy in USDA Zones 11a to 11b

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — loose trails like many ornamental sweet potato vines; rather than racing outward in long

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — overlapping mass of fresh green foliage touched with subtle purple accents; regular feeding

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — this mounding-trailing selection typically grows 6 to 12 inches tall and spreads 18, image 47

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — The effect is lush and textural; its sculptural foliage gives containers a polished

Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) — with recommended spacing of 12 to 18 inches where it is used in beds or mass, image 48

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