Historical reference: Do not rely on this information. It is very old. About this collection
Bindweed, the name commonly applied by farmers and gardeners to the small Convolvulus arvensis with pink and white flowers, a tiresome field weed; to the large Calystegia sepium, with large white flowers, in hedgerows; and to Polygonum Convolvulus, the climbing buckwheat or black bindweed, an equal pest, only resembling the others in its twining mode of growth and in the shape of its leaves.