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57.) CONVOLVULACEAE - Bindweed family

  • Convolvulus arvensis L. (var. arvensis - Stace, NBN) (Field Bindweed) / - numerous forms to be included General
  • Calystegia soldanella (L.) R. Br. (Sea Bindweed) - Coasts
  • Calystegia sepium (L.) R. Br. ssp. sepium (f. sepium?) (Hedge Bindweed / Great Bindweed - NBN) / Woodland
  • Calystegia sepium x C. silvatica = C. x lucana (Ten.) G. Don (Hedge x Large Bindweed) - General
  • Calystegia pulchra Brummitt & Heywood (Hairy Bindweed) - General
  • Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb. (ssp. disjuncta Brummitt and ssp. silvatica var. sylvatica - Stace, NBN) (Large Bindweed) / - both taxa are quite common but the former occurs in more 'natural' settings such as hedgerows, often replacing C. sepium in Bristol City. The latter prefers more wasteland areas such as along railway lines and allotment margins. General
  • Ipomoea purpurea Roth (Common Morning-glory) 1928 General
  • Ipomoea hederacea Jacq. (Ivy-leaved Morning-glory) General
  • Ipomoea lacunosa L. (White Morning-glory) General
  • Cuscuta campestris Yunck. (Yellow Dodder) General
  • Cuscuta epilinum Weihe (Flax Dodder) 1896 General
  • Cuscuta approximata Bab. (which sspp. and var? - ssp. approximata?) (Alfalfa Dodder - GBIF) 1906 General
  • Cuscuta europaea L. (Greater Dodder) - Wetland
  • Cuscuta epithymum (L.) L. (Dodder) - Grassland

Species to add:

  • Convolvulus tricolor L. ssp. tricolor (Tricoloured Convolvulus)

  • Convolvulus stachydifolius var. stachydifolius Choisy (Woundwort-leaved Bindweed - Flora of Israel and adjacent areas) - [Glos. Fl.]

  • Calystegia sepium ssp. sepium f. colorata (Stace, NBN) (Hedge Bindweed / Great Bindweed - NBN) - 1 record according to NBN
  • Calystegia silvatica ssp. silvatica var. quinquepartita (Stace, NBN) (Large Bindweed) - 1 record according to NBN
  • Calystegia silvatica ssp. disjuncta (Stace, NBN) (Large Bindweed) /
  • Cuscuta suaveolens Ser. (Lucerne Dodder - NBN, Fringed Dodder - GBIF) - 5. Baptist Mills, B.E.C., 1932, 346. - to be added before C. australis
  • Cuscuta australis R. Br., var. cesatiana (Bertol.) Yunck. (Australian Dodder - NBN, GBIF) - 5. Kingswood, B.E.C., 1932, 346. - to be added before C. campestre

Bumblebees often chew through to get to the nectar when the flower is closed and upon opening, leave a series of symmetrical holes around the margin like paper snowflakes.