Morning Glory Or Bindweed

Morning glory belongs to a family of unique and tenacious plants called ipomoea.

Morning glory or bindweed. Name convolvulus sepium family convolvulaceae type perennial or annual height 8 to 32 inches 20 to 80 cm exposure full sun soil ordinary flowering june to october. Bindweed is a climbing vine. Bindweed morning glory facts. It will happily vine its way across the landscape over shrubs and fences and even up and around trees and poles.

K ə n v ɒ l v j ʊ ˌ l eɪ s i eɪ known commonly as the bindweed or morning glory family is a family of about 60 genera and more than 1 650 species of mostly herbaceous vines but also trees shrubs and herbs and also including the sweet potato and a few other food tubers. Morning glory vines are usually thicker than bindweed s vines and may have small hairs. Field bindweed flowers only occur in either pink or white whereas annual morning glory flowers may be pink white magenta blue purple or red and are much larger than those of the bindweed. Bindweed convolvus arvensis is the bane of many a gardener s life.

The morning glories or bindweeds belong to the convolvulaceae family of plants which contains many different species. All of them have the trumpet or funnel shaped flower of the hedge bindweed but the flowers of some species are brightly coloured instead of white. Morning glory vine is an annual. Morning glory weed control in the cultivated landscape however is essential to prevent the plant from taking over.

It is related to the morning glory which explains a couple of its other common names. It is very closely related to the convolvulus or bindweed plants which are perennial. Normally the first signs that you have bindweed will be thin thread like vines that wrap themselves tightly around plants or other upward objects. Planting bindweed morning glory.

Other common names include creeping jenny and possession vine. See while it may look harmless with its little white trumpet flowers bindweed grows aggressively. Bindweed is stubborn is recognized as a noxious weed species by the colorado department of agriculture and other agencies and takes a bit of work to remove so the best option for getting rid of morning glory weed is to prevent it from getting a foothold. Perennial morning glory and smallflower morning glory.

Bindweed is a climbing vine. Valerie clingerman purdue extension knox county anr educator demonstrates the identifying characteristics of bindweed and morning glories. Bindweed which is often considered a very invasive plant is nonetheless a very beautiful flower.