Black-bindweed
Black-bindweed - Fallopia convolvulus
A medium tall twining plant with heart shaped leaves, which are un-toothed and mealy beneath. Flowers are greenish pink or greenish white in lax leafy spikes from the leaf axils.
Waste places and cultivated land, especially arable land.
July to October.
Annual.
Common and widespread in Britain.
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 491 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham Calow
Field near to Granitethorpe, Sapcote
19 July 2011 Barrack End entrance to Church Walk Sapcote SP 4896 9329 (taken 5.8.2007).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
05 August 2007
Graham Calow
Sapcote
01 September 2014
Peter Smith
Cropston
28 August 2011
Alan Semper
Harby, nature reserve
31 August 2012
David Nicholls
Ashby Canal, Shackerstone
15 September 2012
 Barrack End entrance to Church Walk Sapcote SP 4896 9329 (taken 5.8.2007).JPG)
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Calybites phasianipennella
The larva of the moth Calybites phasianipennella mines the leaves of various plants including Dock species, Yellow Loosestrife,Water-pepper, Black Bindweed and Redshank. An initial gallery leads to a blotch; later instars leaves the mine and feeds inside a cone-shaped leaf-roll, made by cutting a strip out of the leaf the leaf alongside the midrib.