Taxon: Convolvulus arvensis L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

AK*°, AL°, AR*°, AZ*°, CA*°, CO*°, CT°, DC°, DE°, FL°, GA°, HI*°, IA*°, ID°, IL°, IN°, KS*°, LA°, MA°, MD°, ME°, MI*°, MN*°, MO*°, MS°, MT*°, NC°, ND*°, NE°, NH°, NJ°, NM*°, NV°, NY°, OH°, OK*°, OR*°, SC°, SD*°, TN°, TX°, VA°, VT°, WA°, WI*°, WV°, WY*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• bindweed   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• common bindweed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• field bindweed   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• lesser bindweed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• small bindweed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• white convolvulus   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• wild morning-glory   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• akkerwinde   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• klimop   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• 'ullayq   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• liseron des champs   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Akerwinde   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• campainha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• corda-de-viola   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• corregüela   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• åkervinda   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Convolvulus arvensis from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Nepal; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Elmore, C. D. et al. 1990. Biology and control of morningglories (Ipomoea spp.). Rev. Weed Sci. 5:83–114.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador. [mentions].
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Johnson, R. W. 2001. A taxonomic revision of Convolvulus L. (Convolvulaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 6:8–10.
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Norton, J. et al. 2009. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Ross, J. 1972. The flora of Natal.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Convolvulus arvensis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Convolvulus arvensis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Convolvulus arvensis.

Check other web resources for Convolvulus arvensis L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Forestry Images: Images of invasive weeds from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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