Species: Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)

Family: Bindweeds (CONVOLVULACEAE)

Category: Flowering Plants

Location: NW

A. Flowering Plants

More extensive information on flowering plants can be found in a separate blog post.

B. Bindweeds (CONVOLVULACEAE)

This family includes a large number of herbaceous vines with colourful funnel-shaped flowers, and also food tubers like sweet potato. The climbers twine anticlockwise.

C. Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)

The pink or white flowers of this common native plant appear from June. Bindweed tincture is an effective purgative. There are serious consequences if you pick bindweed, for it will thunder before the day is out, and your boy/girlfriend will die.

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Field Bindweed

The pink or white flowers of this common native plant appear from June. Bindweed tincture is an effective purgative.

Field Bindweed

Legend has it that there are serious consequences if you pick bindweed, for it will thunder before the day is out, and your boy/girlfriend will die.