Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Convolvulus arvensis
Common name
Bindweed
Family
Convolvulaceae
Where found
Disturbed areas and moist sites. Widsepread, but no records from the Western Slopes. Most records from the Sydney area.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb with trailing or twining stems to about 0.75 m long, and a slender creeping rootstock. Stems round to 4-angled in cross section, hairless to moderately hairy. Leaves alternating along the stems, 1–7 cm long, 5-40 mm wide, with 2 pointed lobes at the base or entire, fairly uniform in shape from the base of the stem to the tip, surfaces hairless or with scattered hairs. Flowers funnel-shaped with 5 ill-defined lobes, 15–30 mm long, 20-30 mm in diameter, usually white, occasionally pink. Sepals 3.5-4.5 mm long, free from each other. Flowers in 1–4-flowered clusters, single (very rarely in pairs) at the bases of the leaves. Flowering: spring to autumn.
Noxious weed Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Convolvulus~arvensis (accessed 14 January, 2021)
Description partly based on: Wood, J.R.I., Williams, B.R.M., Mitchell, T.C., Carine, M.A., Harris, D.J. & Scotland, R.W. (2015), A foundation monograph of Convolvulus L. (Convolvulaceae). Phytokeys 51: 60-62, Fig. 3, t. 19-27
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