Hedge Bindweed
Hedge Bindweed - Calystegia sepium
Vigorous climbing and twining plant to 3 metres. Leaves bright green and arrow shaped. Flowers white, 30 to 50 mm. Bracts not overlapping or scarcely so.
Calystegia silvatica
Bracteoles only slightly or not overlapping; sepals beneath clearly visible
A side-on photograph showing bracteoles and sepals beneath
Woods, hedges and waste places.
June to September.
Perennial.
Common and widespread throughout most of Britain.
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 429 of the 617 tetrads.
 Church Walks Sapcote SP 4895 9327 (taken 25.9.2008),.JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
25 September 2008
Graham Calow
Hinckley Lane, Wykin
04 July 2015
Paul Ruddoch
Priors Close
17 July 2014
Graham Calow
Witherley
15 July 2015
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Land behind William Spencer Avenue
24 July 2021
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Land behind William Spencer Avenue
24 July 2021
Dave Neville
College Garth, Hathern
23 August 2012
 Church Walks Sapcote SP 4895 9327 (taken 25.9.2008),.JPG)
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Bedellia somnulentella
The larvae of the moth Bedellia somnulentella feed on Bindweed and related species, initially in an inconspicuous narrow and very contorted gallery. The egg is oval, not round as with Stigmella species. Later instars leave the gallery and feed in a transparent blotch mine. The rear end of the larva sticks out of the undersurface of the leaf, and threads of frass hang beneath the mine, caught in a loose net of silk. Early instar larvae from the galleries are whitish; later instars have purplish spots and markings.