Hedge Bindweed

(Calystegia sepium)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Climbing or trailing perennial vining herb

Root anatomy: fibrous roots from taproot, long and branched; deep fleshy rootstock

Leaf anatomy: Alternately arranged, simple, triangular or ovate to ovate-lanceolate, usually glabrous, margins entire or undulate

Flowers: Solitary on pedicel, funnelform corolla, white or pink in color

_{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}