Fallopia Species, Black Bindweed, False Buckwheat, Wild Buckwheat

Fort Collins-Northern Colorado...First noticed this weed a decade ago and let now see it all over town. When pulled, the roots co...Read Moreme out with the plant. The flowers are nondescript. I took it to the county weed bureau and they could not id it. A few years ago I went back and they thought it was a type of buckwheat. It does look like the buckwheat images that I have seen online. I now see it all over town...and pull hundreds in my yard.
Did I discover the beginnings of a noxious weed outbreak?
The blue-flowered weed in the upper-right background is also a nuisance as it as prickly stems.

Imagine my surprise when I found my multi colored morning glories had seeded themselves from last year's flowers growing fast, and strong...Read More......to only find that it was in fact this wild buckwheat!
I don't know very much about this plant, but I have read it is a relative of bindweed, that grows at an alarming rate, with pretty pink striped white flowers, but takes over EVERYTHING, and suffocates shrubs, and trees. Should I let it continue growing alongside my Heavenly Blue morning glories, and Moonflowers?, I'm thinking no.
Where the heck do these things come from?! Now I have three nasties to deal with, Japanese knotweed, Garlic mustard, and now this! Geez-oh-pete, what next?!

This is one of the impossible to get rid of weeds - it loves to climb any plants or any supports. Sometimes you miss them until it's too ...Read Morelate. They have insignificant flowers but seeds like crazy.
Bindweed is a common name for this thought it's commonly confused with the morning glory family - even its species name is the same as the Family Convolvulaceae in which morning glory belong in.

This plant is horrible, it'll sprout up everywhere if you don't pull it out and choke out everything in it path. It isn't fussy about gro...Read Morewing conditions either, I've had it grow in dry sandy soil in full hot sun and dry rockhard clay soil in the shade.