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Noxious weed, and yet ... so beautiful

Calystegia sepium (Hedge Bindweed) is a species of bindweed, with a distribution throughout temperate Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia, northwestern Africa, and North America, and in the temperate Southern Hemisphere in Australia, and Argentina in South America.

 

It is a herbaceous perennial that twines around other plants, in a counter-clockwise direction, to a height of up to 2-4 m, rarely 5 m.

 

 

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Uploaded on September 1, 2011
Taken on July 18, 2008