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Convolvulus arvensis, or field bindweed, is a species of bindweed in the Convolvulaceae [1] native to Europe and Asia. It is a rhizomatous and climbing or creeping herbaceous perennial plant with stems growing to 0.5–2 metres (1.6–6.6 ft) in length. It is usually found at ground level with small white and pink flowers.
Members of the family are well known as food plants (e.g. sweet potatoes and water spinach), as showy garden plants (e.g. morning glory) and as troublesome weeds (e.g. bindweed (mainly Convolvulus and Calystegia) and dodder), while Humbertia madagascariensis is a medium-sized tree and Ipomoea carnea is an erect shrub. Some parasitic members of ...
The plant is native to California coastal sage and chaparral habitats, along the coasts in Southern California and into Baja California, Mexico. It is found on all the Channel Islands, source of its common names. It is also commonly found in the Peninsular Ranges, Transverse Ranges, and Outer Southern California Coast Ranges.
Calystegia purpurata is a species of morning glory known by the common names smooth Western morning glory or Pacific false bindweed. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is endemic to California , where it grows in the seaside scrub of the coastline and the chaparral of the coastal and inland valleys.
Calystegia subacaulis is a species of morning glory known by the common name hillside false bindweed. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is endemic to California , where it grows in the North and Central California Coast Ranges and the San Francisco Bay Area , in woodland and chaparral scrub habitat.
Convolvulus / k ə n ˈ v ɒ l v juː l ə s / [1] is a genus of about 200 [2] to 250 [3] [4] species of flowering plants in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae, [5] with a cosmopolitan distribution. Common names include bindweed and morning glory; both are names shared with other closely related genera.
Hedge bindweed is an herbaceous perennial that twines in a counter-clockwise direction to a height of up to 3 m (10 ft). The leaves are arranged alternately on the spiralling stem; they are dull green above and paler below, simple and sagittate (arrowhead shaped), 5–10 cm (2–4 in) long and 3–7 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) broad.
Convolvulus althaeoides – mallow bindweed, mallow-leaf bindweed; Convolvulus ammannii; Convolvulus angustissimus; Convolvulus argillicola; Convolvulus argyracanthus; Convolvulus argyrothamnos; Convolvulus arvensis – lesser bindweed, field bindweed, common bindweed, white convolvulus, creeping jenny, perennial morning glory; Convolvulus ...