Species: Hedge Bindweed (Calystegia sepium)
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. Hedge Bindweed (Calystegia sepium)
The large 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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Hedge Bindweed
The large white flowers of this common native plant, Hedge Bindweed, appear from June.
Hedge Bindweed
Bindweed tincture is an effective purgative.
