Scientific name: Calystegia pulchra Brummitt & Heywood
Common name: Hairy Bindweed
Description
Habit: A perennial climber, climbing to 3 m.
Stems: Trailing or twining stems, with some short hairs; with far-creeping rhizomes.
Leaves: Alternate, entire, stalked, undivided, more than 10 cm long, triangular with sagittate base; short hairs present on leaf-stalks.
Flowers: Pink or pink with white stripes, solitary, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, over 6 cm across, axillary; each flower with 2 large, strongly inflated, overlapping bracteoles below the calyx and enclosing it; sepals 5, corolla of 5 fused petals, much larger than calyx, broadly funnel-shaped, lobed with an entire margin; stamens 5; style solitary, stigmas 2; ovary superior.
Fruits: A 4-seeded capsule.
Habitat: Hedges.
Distribution: Very rare.
Native status: Not native, introduced
Of conservation interest: No