Black-bindweed
Black-bindweed, field edge, Wessex Ridgeway, Dorset
Flower spikes on Barley stem
Close-up of flowers
5 perianth segmants, 8 stamens and 3-part stigma
Young fruits
Leaves and flower spikes
Close-up of upper leaves
Fallopia convolvulus
Polygonaceae
June to October
It grows throughout the country.
See the BSBI distribution map for Black-bindweed
Black-bindweed grows on cultivated ground and waste ground.
It is an archaeophyte and has been an agricultural weed since
the stone age.
It is a prostrate or scrampling, climbing, annual herb, growing
up to 120cm.
Flowers are small, green, brown and white, in loose spikes.
The flowers are small and made up of 5 keeled, perianth segments.
There are 8 stamens and a 3-part stigma.
Fruits are triangular nuts.
Leaves are arrow-shaped and up to 6cm.
Stems twist clockwise (cf the true bindweeds - Convolvulaceae).
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Black-bindweed, field edge, Wessex Ridgeway, Dorset
Flower spikes on Barley stem
Close-up of flowers
5 perianth segmants, 8 stamens and 3-part stigma
Young fruits
Leaves and flower spikes
Close-up of upper leaves
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