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Calystegia sepium (devil's guts; hedge bindweed; hedge falsebindweed; bearbind; hedgebell; old man's night cap; hedge false bindweed; large bindweed; wild morning glory)

Synonyms: Calystegia sepium var. sepium; Convolvulus catesbei

Wikipedia Abstract

Calystegia sepium (hedge bindweed, Rutland beauty, bugle vine, heavenly trumpets, bellbind, granny-pop-out-of-bed) (formerly Convolvulus sepium) is a species of bindweed, with a subcosmopolitan distribution throughout the temperate Northern and Southern hemispheres. It is an herbaceous perennial that twines around other plants, in a counter-clockwise direction, to a height of up to 2–4 m, rarely 5 m. The pale matte green leaves are arranged spirally, simple, pointed at the tip and arrowhead shaped, 5–10 cm long and 3–7 cm broad.
View Wikipedia Record: Calystegia sepium

Infraspecies

Calystegia sepium americana
Calystegia sepium angulata
Calystegia sepium appalachiana
Calystegia sepium baltica
Calystegia sepium erratica
Calystegia sepium f. alba
Calystegia sepium f. colorata
Calystegia sepium f. malachopylla
Calystegia sepium f. schizoflora
Calystegia sepium f. sepium
Calystegia sepium limnophila
Calystegia sepium roseata
Calystegia sepium sepium (Gemeine Zaun-Winde)
Calystegia sepium spectabilis
Calystegia sepium var. repens

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [1]  White
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  This species is said to be purgative[173], some caution is advised.
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Vine
Usage [2]  The stems are very flexible and can be used as an emergency string for tying; It is fairly strong but not very long-lasting;
Height [2]  9.84 feet (3 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Rich
Soil Moisture [3]  Damp
View Plants For A Future Record : Calystegia sepium

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Parasitized by 
Erysiphe convolvuli[9]
Puccinia convolvuli[9]
Septoria convolvuli[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Anthophora abrupta Say (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae), Jason R. Graham, Jamie Ellis, Glenn Hall, Catherine Zettel Nalen, University of Florida, December 2011
♦ 7HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 8Ecology of Commanster
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0