Hedge Bindweed (Calystegia sepium)
An attractive plant with large white trumpet-shaped flowers that brighten our hedgerows in late summer and autumn.
It is invasive and difficult to eradicate if such is required thanks to its ability to root from the smallest fragment of rootstock left in the soil.
It superficially resembles Greater Bindweed (C. silvatica) but is separated by its smaller flowers and the structure of the calyx. Here, two large, but not overlapping, sepal-like bracts allow sight of the narrower sepals underneath.
Hedge Bindweed (Calystegia sepium)
An attractive plant with large white trumpet-shaped flowers that brighten our hedgerows in late summer and autumn.
It is invasive and difficult to eradicate if such is required thanks to its ability to root from the smallest fragment of rootstock left in the soil.
It superficially resembles Greater Bindweed (C. silvatica) but is separated by its smaller flowers and the structure of the calyx. Here, two large, but not overlapping, sepal-like bracts allow sight of the narrower sepals underneath.