Missouri Plants
Hedge bindweed   (Calystegia sepium)
Tracheophyte: Angiosperm: Dicot: Morning Glory (Convolvulaceae)
Non-native from Eurasia


Habitat: any full sun area.
ID Features: elongated heart-shaped leaves, white trumpet-shaped flowers.
Natural History: Hedge bindweed grows as a vine with long heart-shaped leaves and white trumpet-shaped flowers. It grows in almost any abandoned environment and is a pernicious weed. If unchecked, it will cover other plants completely and completely "bind" them up.
Hedge bindweed
The information is from:
Missouri Wildflowers by Edgar Denison, 5th Edition, Missouri Department of Conservation, ©1998.