Calystegia & Convolvulus: the Bindweed Family
To many of us, these are pest plants that scramble over anything they encounter. There is a delight in watching our Garden Bumblebee clambering in and out of the trumpet shaped flowers of the impressive Large Bindweed, Calystegia silvatica.
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Calystegia & Convolvulus: the Bindweed Family
Attractive, trumpet shaped flowers winding through hedges and along roadsides and waste ground (keen gardeners will disagree with me, as painstaking removal of metres of brittle, white roots is needed to control it).
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Calystegia silvatica
Large Bindweed.
Climbs by twining. Plant up to 3 metres high.
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The Convolvulus Hawk Moth and her caterpillar (the sharp end is at the back and is merely to confuse predators) make this plant their home.
The Large Bindweed (right) differs from the Hedge Bindweed (left). It is larger and has two leaf-like bracts covering the base of the trumpet.
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Convolvulus arvensis
Field Bindweed.
Creeps along the ground. Plant is low growing and spreading. Flower trumpets close during dull weather.
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The caterpillar of the Four Spot, a moth that flies in daytime as well as in the hours of darkness, uses this as a food plant.
Every 'A' road in Epsom and Ewell has areas of this pretty plant. I found this one on the A240 between Ewell and Stoneleigh, Surrey.
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