. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. CONVOLVULACEAE {CONVOLVULUS FAMILY) 323 be broken up with the plow and hogs may be turned in — with snouts in working order —for the purpose of turning out and eating the succulent roots, of which they are very fond. Sheep pasturing on infested ground will also keep leaf-growth down and will starve the underground growth. HEDGE BINDWEED Convdlvulus sbpium, L. Other English names: Great Bindweed, Brac
. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. CONVOLVULACEAE {CONVOLVULUS FAMILY) 323 be broken up with the plow and hogs may be turned in — with snouts in working order —for the purpose of turning out and eating the succulent roots, of which they are very fond. Sheep pasturing on infested ground will also keep leaf-growth down and will starve the underground growth. HEDGE BINDWEED Convdlvulus sbpium, L. Other English names: Great Bindweed, Bracted Bindweed, Hedge Lily, Rutland Beauty, Devil's Vine. Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by rootstocks. Time of bloom: June to August. Seed-time: Late July to October. Range: Nova Scotia to Minnesota, southward to tie Carolinas, Missouri, and Nebraska, Habitat: Cultivated ground, fence rows, thickets, waste places. Nearly as obnoxious as the smaller Field Bindweed, and about as hard to control; its rootstocks, however, are larger and not so brittle; the trailing or twining stems are three to ten feet or more in length. Leaves smooth, long, triangular halberd-shaped, the basal lobes diverging and truncate; petioles slender, usually shorter than the blades. Flowers solitary, about two inches long, the corollas flaring funnel- shaped, pink, with white stripes, or clear white, lifted on slender axillary four-angled peduncles, often five or six inches in length. Just below the flower and overlapping and concealing its five-lobed calyx is a pair of large, heart-shaped bracts, which are persistent and enfold the fruit. Capsule globular and may contain four seeds, but often only two or three are fertile; the seeds are angular kidney-shaped, about an eighth of an inch long, dark brown. They retain vitality for several years. (Fig. B?^eed*\c~owolwlZ 225.) septum). X \.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhance
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