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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Convolvulaceae
Calystegia sepium (L.) R.Br.
hedge bindweed, hedge false bindweed
Calystegia: from two Greek words kalux, "cup," and stegos, "a covering," and thus meaning "a covering cup" (?)
sepium: growing in hedges or used for hedges
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | trailing or twining, perennial, herbaceous vine up to 10' long; from rhizomes |
| Flower: | white to pink, 5-parted, 1 1/2"-2 3/4" long, funnel-shaped, petals very shallowly-lobed, bracts large and just below the mostly equal sepals;  usually solitary in each leaf axil; blooms June-Sept. |
| Leaf: | triangular, stalk more than half as long as the leaf midvein  |
| Habitat: | wet; disturbed sites, meadows, prairies |
| (Glossary) |
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