Common name:
Field bindweed
Family:
Scientific name:
Convolvulus arvensis
Main flower color:
Range:
Wales, England and central/south Scotland
Height:
Stems are up to 3 m long, climbing or creeping, using other plants for support
Habitat:
Waste ground, fields, hedges, roadsides, coastal grassland; a common weed
Flowers:
Trumpet-shaped, up to 30 mm in diameter, pink to white; usually five pink patches, crossed by a white stripe, and separated by five broader white bands. Below is a five-lobed calyx, lacking bracts
Leaves:
Hairless, stalked, arrow-shaped, up to 5 cm long, with two spreading lobes at the base
Season:
June to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
