sweet_potato | order | solanales <sep> the sweet potato or sweetpotato (ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, convolvulaceae its large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a root vegetable the young shoots and leaves are sometimes eaten as greens  cultivars of the sweet potato have been bred to bear tubers with flesh and skin of various colors sweet potato is only distantly related to the common potato (solanum tuberosum), both being in the order solanales 
sweet potato belongs to the solanales order of plants.sweet potato is only distantly related to the common potato (solanum tuberosum) in the order solanales