Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Calystegia sepium subsp. roseata

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Tomakin

Flowering stems. Photographer Richard Hartland, Kororoit Creek, Vic

Common name

Large Bindweed

Family

Convolvulaceae

Where found

Disturbed sites, stream banks, and swamps. Coastal areas.

Notes

Perennial herb with twining stems. Hairless. Leaves alternating along the stems, 4–10 cm long, 20–80 mm wide, arrow-shaped, tips drawn out to a long point. Flowers white to  pink, 40–60 mm long, trumpet-shaped, with 5 lobes. Flowers single. Stigma with 2 lobes. Sepals free from each other. Bracteoles oval with pointed tips, 15–20 mm long, 8–12 mm wide, longer than and enclosing the sepals. Flowering: Spring-Summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Calystegia~sepium 
(accessed 7 January, 2021)