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Bindweed / Large bindweed / Taglys y perthi / Taglys Mawr / Cap nos nain / Calystegia sepium
Flowers June - September
| Easy enough to distinguish from the lesser bindweed - it's much larger and pure white (no pink stripes). It's to be seen all over Britain clambering over hedges, bushes or anything that will give suppor to its weak but very fast growing stems, which twine aniclockwise round and round, in the manner of runner beans etc. It often kills its means of support, as its dense foliage and flowers block out light. If there's no support, it's quite happy to ramble over the ground, like this specimen in Parc Bryn Bach, Blaenau Gwent. There's a very large number of Welsh names for this plant - or is it this plant? There appears to be some confusion between this and other bindweeds in Welsh. |
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