In Wim Vader's report of a stroll in the" balmy" Netherlands (well compared
with Tromso), he pondered the English for Calystegia sepium, not having his
English plant book with him.
It is Hedge Bindweed, also known as Bugle vine, Heavenly trumpets or Bellbind
(amongst others). Many laymen know it as convolvulus.
Formerly called Convolvulus<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolvulus> sepium
it is has a
distribution<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitan_distribution>
throughout the temperate Northern and Southern hemispheres. It has several
regional subspecies. A smothering species, it has trumpet shaped flowers that
are white or, in the case of some subspecies, pink.
Angus Innes
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