Polygonum cilinode

Buckwheat Family - Polygonaceae

Sheaths at the leaf joints are fringed with fine whitish hairs.

A vine with red, jointed stems twisting around adjacent plants and alternating, heart-shaped leaves.

Small, white, 5-petalled flowers in branching racemes. (Photographed - July)

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Fringed or Fringed Black Bindweed

Fringed or Fringed Black Bindweed