Hedge Bindweed.Convolvulus sepium.
Blossoming along the roadside and in the meadow in June and July.
This twining leafy vine, climbing over low shrubbery, has a round, smooth, light green stem.
The broad arrow-shaped leaf is from 2 to 3 inches in length, tapering at the tip, and set on a longfoot-stem; the surface is smooth, and the color a grayish-green.
The large funnel-shaped flower is about 2 inches broad and from 2 to 3 inches long; the spreading top is obscurely 5-sided, and singularly fine and delicate in texture, and of a pale shell-pink or white color; the stamens and a 2-divided white pistil are visible within the tube; the 5 pale-green parts of the calyx are nearly enfolded by two larger shell-shaped bracts.
The Bindweed blossoms luxuriantly along the edge of cultivated grounds, and often runs in among the crops to such an extent as to be deemed a pest by the farmer. Though it is the flower of the morning, on cool gray days it frequently remains in bloom late Into the afternoon.