CONVOLVULACE^: 



MORNING GLORY FAMILY 



Convolvulus arvensis, L. 



White, or tinged 

 with pink 



May-September 



Field Bindweed, 



Small Bindweed, 



Hedge-bells, 



Bear-bind, 



Cow-lily, 



Lap-love, 



Sheep-bind, 



Bell-bind, 

 Corn-bind, 

 Cow-bind, 



European Bindweed, 

 Corn-lily, 

 Small-flowered 

 Morning Glory. 



Convolvulus: Latin, to entwine. 

 Arvensis: Latin, belonging in a field. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: open thickets. 



THE PLANT: trailing, one foot to two and one half feet 

 long; stems simple or branched, very slender, hairless or 

 nearly so. 



THE LEAVES: alternate; one inch to two inches long; ovate 

 or oblong; hairless or nearly so; obtusish, mucronulate, 

 acutish at the apex; sagittate or somewhat hastate at the 

 base; petioled; the basal lobes spreading; slender, acute; 

 entire. 



THE FLOWERS: one to four, on peduncles shorter than the 

 leaves, which are bracted at the summit; usually another 

 bract is on one of the pedicels; corolla sometimes nearly 

 one inch across; sepals oblong-obtuse. 



THE FRUIT: a globose capsule. 



The Bindweed of the dry soil, frequently seen in the 

 streets of the town. It has funnel-shaped, usually dead- 

 white flowers. Not unattractive when crawling along the 

 ground, it fades almost immediately after being picked. 



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