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Scientific name Calystegia sepium
Authority (L.) R.Br.
First published in Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. : 483 (1810)

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General Uses Top

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Common products:
- Whole plant (vine) sold as ornamental nursery stock for garden climbing, trellises, fences, and walls; listed in horticultural databases such as the Royal Horticultural Society Plant Finder (2023).
- Cultivars marketed for their white or pink flowers and vigorous climbing habit include ‘Alba’, ‘Rosea’, highlighted in nursery catalogues (e.g., RHS Plant Finder, 2023).

Properties relevant to use:
- Fast‑growing twining habit with slender, flexible stems that readily cling to supports, enabling rapid coverage of vertical structures (Flora of the British Isles, Clapham et al., 1952).
- Tolerates a range of soil types (sandy to loamy) and moisture regimes (mesic to xeric), allowing cultivation across temperate climates (Flora of the British Isles, Clapham et al., 1952).
- Leaves are heart‑shaped, 3–7 cm long, providing dense foliage for green walls or privacy screens (Flora of the British Isles, Clapham et al., 1952).
- Flowering from early summer to early autumn produces large funnel‑shaped flowers (white to pink) attractive to pollinators, enhancing garden aesthetics (Flora of the British Isles, Clapham et al., 1952).

Standards and regulation:
- Cultivar naming follows the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP) and is recorded in the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (ICNCP, 2016).
- Trade of ornamental vines is subject to plant‑health legislation (e.g., EU Plant Health Directive 2000/29/EC; United States Department of Agriculture Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) regulations), requiring phytosanitary certificates for import/export (EU Commission 2000; USDA 2022).
- National certification schemes for nursery stock (e.g., UK Plant Passport; US Nursery Certification) apply to Calystegia sepium cultivars (UK DEFRA 2020; USDA 2021).

Sustainability and sourcing:
- The species is widely distributed across temperate regions and has not been evaluated by the IUCN Red List (2023) (IUCN 2023).
- In several temperate regions (North America, parts of Europe, New Zealand) Calystegia sepium is classified as invasive or noxious (USDA PLANTS database; EPPO Global Database 2023) (USDA 2022; EPPO 2023).
- Commercial production relies on cultivated nursery stock; sustainable sourcing recommendations include avoiding wild collection, using certified seed or cuttings, and implementing containment practices to prevent escape (Royal Horticultural Society Sustainable Nursery Guidelines, 2020).
- Integrated management strategies documented in peer‑reviewed literature (e.g., “Management of hedge bindweed in agricultural systems”, Weed Science 2017) include mechanical removal, targeted herbicide application, and monitoring of new sites (Shelley et al., 2017).

Synonyms Top

Scientific name Authority First published in
Volvulus sepium (L.) Junger Oesterr. Bot. Z. 41: 133, in obs. 1891
Convolvulus sepium L. Sp. Pl. 1: 153. 1753 [1 May 1753]

Common names Top

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Language Common/alternative name
English hedge bindweed
English hedge false bindweed
Spanish campanilla blanca
Spanish yerba campana
Spanish campanilla de enredadera
Spanish campanilla mayor
Spanish campanillas de los cercados
Spanish carrigüela ancha
Spanish convolvulo
Spanish convólvulo
Spanish corniguela mayor
Spanish correguela mayor
Spanish corregüela mayor
Spanish correhuela de cercas
Spanish enredadera con orejas
Spanish hiedra campanilla
Spanish soga de arboles
Spanish voluble mayor
Spanish yedra campana
Arabic فنجان القاضي
Arabic شاب ظريف
Arabic لبلاب السياجات
Azerbaijani hasar sarmaşığı
Azerbaijani hasar çəpərsarmaşığı
azb هاسار سارماشیغی
Bulgarian дребноцветно чадърче
Catalan campaneta de la mare de déu
Czech opletník plotní
Welsh taglys y perthi
Danish gærde-snerle
German gewöhnliche zaunwinde
German echte zaunwinde
German convolvulus sepium
Greek Περικοκλάδι
Greek Περιπλοκάς
Greek Περικοκλάδα
Estonian tara-seatapp
Basque birigain zuri
Basque birigane zuri
Basque ezker-aihen zuri
Basque lurruntz zuri
Basque ezkerte zuri
Persian پیچک جنگلی پرچینی
Finnish valkokarhunköynnös
Finnish isokierto
Finnish karhunköynnös
French liseron des haies
French convolvulus sepium
frr witj huder
Hebrew חבלבלן המשוכות
Upper Sorbian frónčk
Upper Sorbian frónčkowc
Upper Sorbian popletka
Upper Sorbian wšědna wijawka
Hungarian sövényszulák
Armenian Տիպատատուկ ցանկապատային
Icelandic maríuvafklukka
Japanese ヒロハヒルガオ
Kabyle merz buqal
li rierank
li haagwinde
li pispötteke
li piespötteke
Lithuanian patvorinė vynioklė
Macedonian голем слачец
Norwegian Bokmål strandvindel
nds Överwinn
nds richelwinn
nds rickwinn
nds schoorwinn
nds tuunwinn
nds tüünwinn
nds wittwortel
nds wittwörtel
nds wittwuddel
nds wittwuttel
nds rickelwinn
nds convolvulus sepium
Dutch haagwinde
Dutch pispotje
Dutch convolvulus sepium
Norwegian Nynorsk strandvindel
Polish kielisznik zaroślowy
Romanian cupa vacii
rsk Клобучки
Russian повой заборный
Slovak povoja plotná
Serbian Ладолеж
Serbian ladolež
stq pispotte
Swedish kustsnårvinda
Swedish kustvinda
Swedish skär snårvinda
Swedish skärvinda
Swedish trädgårdsvinda
Swedish vit snårvinda
Swedish snårvinda
Swedish convolvulus sepium
tg Говпечак
Turkish Çit sarmaşığı
Ukrainian плетуха звичайна
Chinese 旋花
Chinese 天剑草
Chinese 面根藤
Chinese 宽叶打碗花
Chinese 旋花根
Chinese 旋花苗
Chinese 篱天剑
Chinese 包颈草
Chinese 吊茄子
Chinese 打破碗花
Chinese 打碗花
Chinese 旋葍
Chinese 狗儿弯藤
Chinese 独肠草
Chinese 筋根
Chinese 续筋根
Chinese 美草
Chinese 葍子根
Chinese 野苕
Chinese 饭藤子
Chinese 饭豆藤
Chinese 鼓子花

Subspecies (abbr. subsp./ssp.) Top

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Name Authority First published in
Calystegia sepium subsp. americana (Sims) Brummitt Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 52: 216 (1965)
Calystegia sepium subsp. angulata Brummitt Kew Bull. 35: 328 (1980)
Calystegia sepium subsp. limnophila (Greene) Brummitt Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 52: 216 (1965)
Calystegia sepium subsp. roseata Brummitt Watsonia 6: 298 (1967)
Calystegia sepium subsp. sepium
Calystegia sepium subsp. spectabilis Brummitt Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 64: 73 (1971)

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

Legend for the distribution data:
- Doubtful data
- Extinct
- Introduced
- Native
  • Africa
    • Macaronesia
      • Azores
      • Madeira
    • Northern Africa
      • Algeria
      • Morocco
      • Tunisia
    • Southern Africa
      • Cape Provinces
  • Asia-temperate
    • Caucasus
      • North Caucasus
      • Transcaucasus
    • China
      • China North-central
      • Manchuria
      • Xinjiang
    • Eastern Asia
      • Japan
      • Korea
    • Middle Asia
      • Kazakhstan
      • Kirgizstan
      • Tadzhikistan
      • Turkmenistan
      • Uzbekistan
    • Russian Far East
      • Amur
      • Khabarovsk
      • Kuril Islands
      • Primorye
      • Sakhalin
    • Siberia
      • Altay
      • Chita
      • Krasnoyarsk
      • West Siberia
    • Western Asia
      • Afghanistan
      • Cyprus
      • East Aegean Islands
      • Iran
      • Lebanon-Syria
      • Palestine
      • Turkey
  • Australasia
    • Australia
      • New South Wales
      • South Australia
      • Tasmania
      • Victoria
      • Western Australia
    • New Zealand
      • Chatham Islands
      • Kermadec Islands
      • New Zealand North
      • New Zealand South
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Baltic States
      • Belarus
      • Central European Russia
      • East European Russia
      • Krym
      • Northwest European Russia
      • South European Russia
      • Ukraine
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Belgium
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Hungary
      • Netherlands
      • Poland
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Denmark
      • Finland
      • Great Britain
      • Ireland
      • Norway
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Bulgaria
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Kriti
      • Romania
      • Sicilia
      • Turkey-in-Europe
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • Baleares
      • Corse
      • France
      • Portugal
      • Sardegna
      • Spain
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • New Brunswick
      • Newfoundland
      • Nova Scotia
      • Ontario
      • Prince Edward Island
      • Québec
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Northwest
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Illinois
      • Iowa
      • Kansas
      • Minnesota
      • Missouri
      • Nebraska
      • North Dakota
      • South Dakota
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Connecticut
      • Indiana
      • Maine
      • Massachusetts
      • Michigan
      • New Hampshire
      • New Jersey
      • New York
      • Ohio
      • Pennsylvania
      • Rhode Island
      • Vermont
      • West Virginia
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Oregon
      • Washington
      • Wyoming
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Alabama
      • Delaware
      • District Of Columbia
      • Florida
      • Georgia
      • Kentucky
      • Louisiana
      • Maryland
      • Mississippi
      • North Carolina
      • South Carolina
      • Tennessee
      • Virginia
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • California
      • Nevada
      • Utah
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia
      • Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil South
      • Brazil Southeast
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast
      • Argentina Northwest
      • Argentina South
      • Chile Central
      • Chile South
      • Desventurados Islands
      • Uruguay
    • Western South America
      • Peru

Links to other databases Top

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0001296723
Canadensys 4611
USDA Plants CASE13
Tropicos 8500113
INPN 87560
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30033025-2
The Plant List tro-8500113
Plantarium 7784
PaleoBotany 108095
Open Tree Of Life 576475
Observations.org 152538
NCBI Taxonomy 47519
NBN Atlas NHMSYS0000456325
Nature Serve 2.133664
IUCN Red List 19224959
IPNI 30033025-2
iNaturalist 57481
GBIF 2928441
Freebase /m/07y59n
WisFlora 2850
EPPO CAGSE
EOL 580997
Elurikkus 3321
Calflora (Californian flora) 8426
USDA GRIN 311558
Wikipedia Calystegia_sepium

Genomes (via NCBI) Top

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Scientific Literature Top

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Resistance to Frankliniella occidentalis during Different Plant Life Stages and under Different Environmental Conditions in the Ornamental Gladiolus Wahyuni DS, Klinkhamer PG, Choi YH, Leiss KA Plants (Basel) 29-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10935247
doi:10.3390/plants13050687
PMID:38475533
Ecological and Syntaxonomic Analysis of the Communities of Glebionis coronaria and G. discolor (Malvion neglectae) in the European Mediterranean Area Cano E, Cano-Ortiz A, Quinto Canas R, Piñar Fuentes JC, Rodrigues Meireles C, Raposo M, Pinto Gomes C, Laface VL, Spampinato G, Musarella CM Plants (Basel) 20-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10934477
doi:10.3390/plants13050568
PMID:38475415
Genome-Wide and Transcriptome Analysis of Jacalin-Related Lectin Genes in Barley and the Functional Characterization of HvHorcH in Low-Nitrogen Tolerance in Arabidopsis Quan X, Meng C, Xie C, Sun H, Xu B, Santos Bermudez R, He W Int J Mol Sci 23-Nov-2023
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PMID:38068963
The most polyphagous insect herbivore? Host plant associations of the Meadow spittlebug, Philaenus spumarius (L.) Thompson V, Harkin C, Stewart AJ PLoS One 04-Oct-2023
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Evaluation of the Weeds around Capsicum annuum (CA) Cultivation Fields as Potential Habitats of CA-Infecting Viruses Choi MK Plant Pathol J 01-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10412962
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Altered profile of glycosylated proteins in serum samples obtained from patients with Hashimoto′s thyroiditis following depletion of highly abundant proteins Xu Y, Huo J, Nie R, Ge L, Xie C, Meng Y, Liu J, Wu L, Qin X Front Immunol 30-Jun-2023
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doi:10.3389/fimmu.2023.1182842
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Examination of the Effects of Domestic Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) Grazing on Wetland and Dry Grassland Habitats Fűrész A, Penksza K, Sipos L, Turcsányi-Járdi I, Szentes S, Fintha G, Penksza P, Viszló L, Szalai F, Wagenhoffer Z Plants (Basel) 31-May-2023
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Weed Species from Tea Gardens as a Source of Novel Aluminum Hyperaccumulators Hajiboland R, Moradi A, Kahneh E, Poschenrieder C, Nazari F, Pavlovic J, Tolra R, Salehi-Lisar SY, Nikolic M Plants (Basel) 27-May-2023
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Phytochemical Profile Top

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Alkaloids and derivatives
Cuscohygrine 1201543 Click to see 224.34 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9452(87)90151-8
> Alkaloids and derivatives / Tropane alkaloids
8-Azabicyclo[3.2.1]octane-1,2,3,6-tetraol 3804328 Click to see C1C2C(CC(N2)(C(C1O)O)O)O 175.18 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(90)83019-W
Calystegine A3 183073 Click to see C1CC2(C(C(CC1N2)O)O)O 159.18 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(90)83019-W
Calystegine B1 164245 Click to see C1C2C(CC(N2)(C(C1O)O)O)O 175.18 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(90)83019-W
Calystegine B2 124434 Click to see C1CC2(C(C(C(C1N2)O)O)O)O 175.18 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(90)83019-W
CID 4486820 4486820 Click to see C1CC2(C(C(CC1N2)O)O)O 159.18 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(90)83019-W
Nortropanoline 3693124 Click to see C1CC2(C(C(C(C1N2)O)O)O)O 175.18 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(90)83019-W

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