Large Bindweed - Calystegia silvatica
Vigorous climbing and twining plant. Flowers white 50 to 90 mm sometimes striped with pale pink. Bracteoles widely overlapping and pouched at the base, mostly or completely obscuring sepals beneath. There is a form of the Great Bindweed called 'quinquepartita' where the trumpet shaped corolla is deeply 5 lobed.
Hedge Bindweed (Calystegia sepium)
Bracteoles strongly overlapping so the sepals beneath are completely or nearly obscured
A side-on photograph, showing overlapping bracteoles
Hedgerows, around buildings and waste places.
July to September.
Perennial.
Common and widespread throughout most of Britain.
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 323 of the 617 tetrads.
Alan Semper
Harby, Waltham La verge
05 July 2012
Ken Charity
Woodhouse.Rushey Lane.
20 July 2020
Barbara Cooper
Clawson Hill
08 July 2012
David Nicholls
Burroughs Road, Ratby
18 August 2012
ssp. disjuncta
Graham Calow
Land off Devitt Way, Broughton Astley
16 June 2017
Unusual form with narrow pink stripes
Graham Calow
Stoney Stanton
09 September 2016
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Species profile
- Common names
- American Bellbine, Large Bindweed
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Solanales
- Family:
- Convolvulaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 186
- First record:
- 26/06/2006 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 28/10/2025 (Pugh, Dylan)
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Ken Charity
Leicester. Anstey Lane. A5630
02 July 2021
David Gould
Aylestone Meadows, Spearwort Fields
11 September 2021
Barbara Cooper
Clawson Hill
30 August 2021
CAPochin
Track between Kings Norton and Burton Overy
02 August 2020
Large Bindweed
Craig Mabbett
Frolesworth Manor Lake Field's
19 August 2017
Bedellia somnulentella
The larvae of the moth Bedellia somnulentella feed on Bindweed and related species, initially in an inconspicuous narrow and very contorted gallery. The egg is oval, not round as with Stigmella species. Later instars leave the gallery and feed in a transparent blotch mine. The rear end of the larva sticks out of the undersurface of the leaf, and threads of frass hang beneath the mine, caught in a loose net of silk. Early instar larvae from the galleries are whitish; later instars have purplish spots and markings.