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Calystegia sepium
The flowers are produced from late spring to the end of summer. In the bud, they are covered by large bracts which remain and continue to cover sepals. The open flowers are trumpet-shaped, 3-7 cm diameter, white, or pale pink with white stripes. After flowering the fruit develops as an almost spherical capsule 1 cm diameter containing two to four large, black seeds that are shaped like quartered oranges. The seeds disperse and thrive in fields, borders, roadsides and open woods.
Calystegia sepium (larger bindweed, hedge bindweed, Rutland beauty, bugle vine, heavenly trumpets, bellbind) (formerly Convolvulus sepium) is a species of bindweed, with a subcosmopolitan distribution throughout the temperate Northern and Southern hemispheres.
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The leaf shape and more importantly the large outer bracts which can be seen in the photo here:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/104...
are characteristic of Calystegia sepium and do not occur on Ipomoea imperati.
@Thanks Viv for the id,this plant came to stay,from what i saw in past months is spreading all over the area in wich i moved,Braga and Porto,50km distance between them,so with the information that you gave me and the things i read it's a case of veni vidi vici,like Ceaser said once.now the only thing we can hope is that local species can resist the invasion.
Very invasive plant Antonio and very difficult to clear from the ground as the tiniest piece will root. A gardeners nightmare!
It looks so fragile and yet so strong in the way it's spreading all around! Nice pictures!
Spotted on Apr 13, 2012
Submitted on Apr 25, 2012
