Thanks for your help on my weird seedling. I'm interested to see how it develops. Maybe you can help with this one too. This is a flower I found in a park near my house last fall. I went back to collect seeds, but couldn't really find anything worth keeping. I was recently in the park and saw it was growing again. Hoping maybe this year it will seed? I found something on this site that looks similar.
If it's back in the same spot it was last year be careful you arent looking at bindweed ( it looks to me like bindweed ) which is an aggressive weed that will make you regret ever seeing it if you accidently transplant some to your yard.
tbonewap - the plant in the photo you have posted above is Calystegia sepium,which as westocast73 mentioned can be very invasive...although not all species of Calystegia are invasive or for that matter,not all plants that are stigmatized with the name of 'bindweed' are either twining or invasive,but the Calystegia sepium is most often invasive...it might be best to enjoy this one in the 'wild'
Here are a few links
Calystegia sepium
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CASE13
http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/hdg_bindweedx.htm
Calystegia sepium reported edibility...type in genus and species and hit search...click onto binomial results for further detailed info...
http://www.pfaf.org/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Calystegia+sepium
The last link above will actually work correctly if the 'system' didn't glitch/change the address and you remove the %20 from inbetween Calystegia and sepium and have the end of the url address just correctly read Calystegia+sepium...
TTY,...
Ron
This message was edited Jun 11, 2006 7:33 AM
Gerris2 - I bet that's what alot of people think/say when they see any(!) Morning Glories being sold or traded...
Thanks for the info. I'm surprised to find out how undesirable it is. I thought it was kind of pretty.
It is one of my garden nightmares and keeps me VERY busy! I hat it when it climbs my plant stems! My garden complaints....too much water in the yard until about now, slugs, and Calystegia sepium or as I have always called it, morning glory...it's a beast!
The bindweed is horrible because it has a big root that is so deep and spreads so much that you can`t dig it out to get rid of it and it seems like it grows like kudzu.
This message was edited Jun 18, 2006 9:34 AM
I've had a similar mysterious (and lovely) white morning glory, definitely Not a bindweed, as I have had my share of those, come true for the past five years in my tomato patch (never planted any seeds there). It seems to stay there, climbing up my tomato cages. I have only grown Heavenly Blue, Flying Saucer, and Scarlet O'Hara in my garden, with no one else nearby to cross pollinate. So maybe you have come across whatever I have. BTW, only 20 feet away is where I grow my other morning glorys, and they don't seem to ever influence this white plant. Unless, of course, the seedlings in my tomato patch come up as something else this year.
help---what i thought was wild morning glories,is indeed bindweed,and it is spreading fast. can anyone tell me what chemical i should spray it with to kill it
tree_man150 - I have started a new thread on controlling MG related bindweeds here
Calystegia and Convolvulus Bindweeds some control stategies
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/650316/
and have shared what I know about the subject...
TTY,...
Ron
