Seasonal Wild Flowers

Field Bindweed

Latin name

Convolvulus arvensis

Family

Convolvulaceae

Other names

Bindweed, Cornbine

Flowering season

June to September

English distribution

It is found throughout the country.

See the BSBI distribution map for Field Bindweed

Habitat

It grows on both cultivated and waste land, by paths and

tracks, on scrub and by railways.

Description

Field Bindweed is a native, scrambling, climbing and

smothering, rhizomatous, perennial herb spreading up

to 1m.

Flower stalks (pedicels) have 2 small bracts.

Flowers are aromatic, pink, white or pink and white,

trumpet-shaped and up to 2.5cm.

The 5 anthers turn from pale pink to purple and

the 2 stigmas are white and filiform.

The flowers do not last long before withering.

Leaves are arrow-head shaped (sagittate).

Stems climb by twisting anti-clockwise round other

plants.

Rhizomes grow to a depth of 2m or more.

Although it is an attractive flower, it is considered a

persistent and noxious weed.

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Field Bindweed flower sequence

Flower 5 stamens 2 stigmas

Stigmas and 'new' anthers

Stigmas and mature anthers

2 small bracts at base of flower stalk

Leaves

Anti-clockwise binding

Smothering other plants

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