General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Vine
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Plant Height: 4 to 6 inches
Plant Spread: trailing 3 to 6 feet
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Pink
White
Other: White or Pale Pink with slightly darker pink radial stripes.
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Underground structures: Rhizome
Taproot
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Pollinators: Self
Flies
Bees
Various insects
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil

Victory Seed Company sells seeds of Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).

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Common names
  • Field Bindweed
  • Morning Glory
  • Creeping Jenny

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Location: The Black Hills, SD
Date: 7/2/2022
Grows natively
Location: Pleasant Grove, Utah
Date: 2009-07-11
The worst, worst, worst, weed in the garden
Location: The Black Hills, SD
Date: 7/2/2022
Grows natively
Location: The Black Hills, SD
Date: 7/2/2022
Grows natively
Location: Maine
Date: 2022-07-07
Location: The Black Hills, SD
Date: 7/2/2022
Grows natively

Date: 2013-06-19
Photo by Fieldsof_flowers
Location: Indiana zone 5
Date: 2013-06-18

Invasive but beautiful
Location: Indiana zone 5
Date: 2013-06-13
Location: Indiana zone 5
Date: 2013-06-18
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2016-06-15
Location: Nature Reserve Gent, Belgium
Date: 24th June 2009
Location: Heathcote Ontario Canada
Date: 2021-10-11

Date: 2014-06-24
USDA
Location: Belfast, Maine
Date: 2023-07-03
Location: Belfast, Maine
Date: 2023-07-03

Date: 2013-06-19

Date: 2013-06-19
Comments:
  • Posted by Bonehead (Planet Earth - Zone 8b) on May 24, 2013 11:39 AM concerning plant:
    This is a naturalized non-native invasive in the Pacific Northwest. Found in fields, thickets, roadsides, disturbed areas. Can become problematic in the garden, although I find it easy to just pull out where not welcome, and I enjoy the pure white flowers shining through a host shrub.

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