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Calystegia sepium |
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| Common name |
hedge bindweed |
| Family |
convolvulaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial |
| Flowers |
white/pink (summer) |
| Size |
climbs or rambles, to 6 ft |
| Light |
sun |
One of the noxious weeds of the US. A relative of the morning glory, with similar flowers that are actually quite pretty, but with designs to take over whatever space they set root in. It makes for a good bit of work in our garden, since it's difficult to dig up the plants with all the roots (and if you don't, it will be back!).
This species can be distinguished from the similar field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) by the leaf shape (pointy rather than rounded tip, and a break/angle in the base of the arrowhead) and the flower (bracts are right at the base of the flowers, instead of further down the flowerstalk). Another similar weed, wild buckwheat, doesn't have the break in the leaf base, and does not have showy flowers.
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Marie-Ève | Sep 07, 2006 | Your picture is very beatiful and is of great value to my weeds identification sheet since there are only the leves it's great to study!!, thank you very much |
| Angelina | Jan 05, 2011 | HI, I am doing a Garden Club project and your information is very helpful! Thank you Rob! |
| Angelina N. | Jan 06, 2011 | Also I would like you to update more about all the plants in the Convolvulaceae family please because that's the family I'm doing my project on. Thanks! |
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