FIELD BINDWEED

Convolvulus arvensis

Bindweed [Convolvulaceae]

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2nd July 2011, Hightown brick beach, Sefton Coast. Photo: © RWD
Growing right next the sea, but it is not Sea Bindweed which has smaller and shiny leaves like those of Lesser Celandine. The sea has here eroded the cliff so much that Field Bindweed finds itself as close to the sea as it can without being in it!


2nd July 2011, Hightown brick beach, Sefton Coast. Photo: © RWD
When having nothing to climb it is prostrate, barely reaching a foot high. The flowers can be either pink, or white, or pink and white with the pink strips being narrower than the white strips, particularly visible on the rear.


2nd July 2011, Hightown brick beach, Sefton Coast. Photo: © RWD
The leaves are dull, slightly hairy and arrow-head shaped, quite un-like the shiny kidney-shaped leaves of Sea Bindweed.


2nd July 2011, Hightown brick beach, Sefton Coast. Photo: © RWD
Can be prostrate, as here, or climbing when it climbs up to 1m, usually up wire fences.


2nd July 2011, Hightown brick beach, Sefton Coast. Photo: © RWD
The flowers have roll-over surrounds less often than Sea Bindweed.


2nd July 2011, Hightown brick beach, Sefton Coast. Photo: © RWD
Like all Bindweeds, the flowers are trumpet shaped, with five folds barely delineated into five petals.


2nd July 2011, Hightown brick beach, Sefton Coast. Photo: © RWD
Has five stamens with violet strped anthers, and a long-forked stigma. The throat is yellow deep within.


2nd July 2011, Hightown brick beach, Sefton Coast. Photo: © RWD
The five sepals are green (rather than light-green) and small in relation to the flower. There are two short bracts about an inch below the flower on the hairy stalk, a definitive feature of Field Bindweed.


2nd July 2011, Hightown brick beach, Sefton Coast. Photo: © RWD


2nd July 2011, Hightown brick beach, Sefton Coast. Photo: © RWD
The five folds in the exponential horn are more visible from the rear because they are often of a darker shade of pink.


2nd July 2011, Hightown brick beach, Sefton Coast. Photo: © RWD
Five stamens with long anthers bearing white pollen. The stigma is characteristically shaped like a pitchfork with two long prongs.


2nd July 2011, Hightown brick beach, Sefton Coast. Photo: © RWD
Leaves greyish-green, felty hairy, with an orangey rim.


2nd July 2011, Hightown brick beach, Sefton Coast. Photo: © RWD
Leaves have an orange periphery and felty hairs.


2nd July 2011, Hightown brick beach, Sefton Coast. Photo: © RWD
Possessing no tendrils, Field Bindweed climbs mesh fences and other plants by twinning around them clockwise as it grows. Here it has twinned around itself.

Some similarities to : Sea Bindweed but that has shinier kidney shaped leaves.

Slight resemblance to : other Bindweeds belonging to a differing Genus (Calystegia) such as Hedge Bindweed, Large Bindweed and Hairy Bindweed but the flowers of Field Bindweed are much smaller than these, as well as having other differences.

Uniquely identifiable characteristics

Distinguishing Feature :

No relation to : Copse Bindweed nor to Black Bindweed [plants with similar names belonging to a diferent family, that of the Dock & Knotweed Family].

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Distribution
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Convolvulus
(Field Bindweed)

FIELD BINDWEED

Convolvulus arvensis

Bindweed [Convolvulaceae]

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