Photo Credit: Annette Casados, USFWS

Field bindweed is a perennial.

• Extensive root system and stems prostrate up to four feet long, often twinning.
• Leaves are alternate arrow shaped with two inch blades.
• Inflorescence (flowering part of the plant) is white or pinkish, bell or trumpet shaped flowers with two small bracts located one inch under the ovary.
• Fruit is a rounded capsule with four blackish-brown seeds that are often flattened on the sides and can be viable up to 50 years.
• Most times the root system can penetrate the soil at a depth of 20 feet deep.

Field bindweed is originally from Europe and may have been first introduced in wheat from Turkey in 1870.

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Last Updated: 2/9/09

Plants that do not grow naturally on this short grass prairie are called "invasive species."

INFORMATION from US Fish & Wildlife

INFORMATION from USGS

ANNUAL RYE
CANADA THISTLE
CHEAT GRASS
FIELD BINDWEED
KOCHIA
COMMON MULLEIN
MUSK THISTLE
RUSSIAN KNAPWEED
RUSSIAN OLIVE
RUSSIAN THISTLE

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