Hedge Bindweed
Description:
A smooth twining vine bearing funnel-shaped, pinkish flowers with stripes.
Flowers:
2-3" long; calyx 5-lobed, enclosed in 2 pale green bracts; petals 5, united.
2-4" long, arrow-shaped or triangular.
Fruit:
None
Height:
Vine; 3-10' long.
Flowering:
May- September.
Habitat:
Moist soil along streams, thickets, roadsides, and waste places.
Comments:
Hedge Bindweed resembles morning glories but differs in having two rounded stigmas rather than one. It can be a pest, twining among and engulfing desirable ornamentals, and it is difficult to eradicate without removing the fleshy , creeping roots. The genus name is from the Greek words calyc; ("calyx") and steg ("cover"), alluding to the bracts that enclose the calyx; the species name means "of hedges." The somewhat similar Erect Bindweed, a perennial vine, is a troublesome weed; its calyx is not enclosed in bracts, and its flower stalks bear two small bracts.