Botanical name: Fallopia convolvulus    Family: Polygonaceae (Knotweed family)
Synonyms: Fagopyrum convolvulus, Polygonum convolvulus, Fagopyrum volubile

Black Bindweed is a prostrate or twining annual herb. Stem is branched and angular, covered with short hairs, internodes usually short. Leaves are stalked, leaf-stalk 6-15 mm long, blade ovate to oblong ovate or rotund, 15-50 x 7.5-30 mm, pointed, with heart-shaped or hastate base, rarely finely velvet-hairy, glandular; ochrea short, tubular, 3-3.5 mm long. Flowers are borne 3-6 fascicled in leaf-axils. Flower-stalk is shorter than perianth, jointed above the middle. Bracts very short, perianth 5-cleft, tepals green, white margined, 2-2.5 mm long, the outer prominently bluntly-keeled or narrowly winged, slightly accrescent in fruit. Stamens 6-8 with short filaments and dorsifixed anthers. Nuts are dull black to dark brown, 4-5 x 2-2.5 mm, finely granular. Black Bindweed is found in throughout Eurasia and north Africa, including the Himalayas, at altitudes of 1500-3500 m, as a weed in areas of cultivation, also in crevices in moist shady places. Flowering: May-September.

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