Seasonal Wild Flowers

Hairy Bindweed

Calystegia pulchra

Convolvulaceae

June to October

It is scattered throughout the country, but is more common

in the Northwest.

See the BSBI distribution map for Hairy Bindweed

It is a neophyte which has been grown in the UK since the

1820s

and noted in the wild in the mid 1950s.

It is naturalised in hedges and on waste ground.

Hairy Bindweed is a climbing perennial, scrambling up

to 3m.

The flowers are striking and colourful.They are up to

9cm with a funnel-shaped pink corolla, and a yellow

centre surrounded by white.

Anthers and stigmas are also white. The 2 stigmas are

broadish and rise above the anthers.

The flowers have large arrow-shaped bracts below them.

Flower stems are downy or slightly hairy.

Leaves are also arrow-shaped.

Hairy Bindweed, Freeman's Wood,

Lancaster

Large flowers - up to 9cm across

Stamens and stigmas

2 broad stigmas above the 5 anthers

Flowers with large bracts