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Convolvulus
arvensis (Bindweed) Convolvulaceae (Morning Glory Family) Foothills, montane. Meadows, fields, lawns,
woodlands. Spring, summer, fall. Bindweed is fecund. Bindweed is tenacious. Bindweed is ubiquitous. Bindweed is a "WEED" and thus despised by human beings who spend long fruitless hours attempting to exterminate it. One simply cannot dig out all the tiny root segments and the fragments left in the ground quickly reproduce new plants which send out runners and root in for more runners and more flowers - and more frustration. Linnaeus named this genus and species in 1753. "Convolv" is Latin for "rolling together" or "entwining", and "arvensis" is Latin for "a field". |
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Convolvulus
arvensis (Bindweed) Convolvulaceae (Morning Glory Family) Foothills, montane. Meadows, fields, lawns,
woodlands. Spring, summer, fall. Bindweed hugs the ground with runners or twines around fences and other plants, climbing several feet and flowering all along the way. |
