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Bindweed Family

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Bindweed Family:-

Bindweed Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Wild Flower Gallery:-

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

American Bellbine

(Large Bindweed, Great Bindweed)

Calystegia sylvestris

(Calystegia silvatica)

July-September

A climbing or scrambling perennial of hedges, fences, gardens and waste ground. It also spreads into semi-natural habitats away from habitation. Seed-set is often very poor. 0-350 m (Ravenstonedale, Westmorland).

Flower from Borstal in Kent

Flowers from Borstal in Kent

Foliage from Borstal in Kent

Form

Common Dodder

Cuscuta epithymum

July-September

Heath and Mountains (locally frequent, especially on heaths and downs, mainly in England and Wales)

Flower on Ling (Heather)

Flowers from East Kent on 27 July

Foliage from East Kent on 27 July

Form on Ling (Heather)

Field Bindweed

Convolvulus arvensis

June-September

Gardens and Wasteland (a widespread, common and tenacious weed of cultivated and waste places)

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form from Sandwich in Kent

Great Bindweed

(Hedge Bindweed)

Calystegia sepium

July-September

A perennial climber, occurring in hedges, scrub, woodland edges, tall-herb fens, in open Salix and Alnus carr, and on railway banks and waste ground. It also occurs in artificial habitats in built-up areas and near habitation.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form from Eynsford on 4 July

Greater Dodder

Cuscuta europaea

July-September

Rivers (very local and decreasing, in shadier places by rivers, especially the Thames, Wey and Bristol Avon, not in Ireland)

Sea Bindweed

Calystegia soldanella

June-August

A trailing perennial herb found on sand dunes, and above the strand-line on sand and shingle beaches, often with Eryngium maritimum. Lowland.

Flower

Foliage from Sandwich in Kent on 27 June

Foliage from Kenfig Burrows on 11 July

Form from South-east Kent on 9 June

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