Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Convolvulus arvensis [Convolvulus ambigens]
- Family
- Convolvulaceae
- CommonName
- field bindweed, morning glory, withy wind, creeping jenny, devil's guts
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- exotic, noxious
- EarliestDate
- 1915
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, SSanjuans, UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- Medano
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town), Del Norte
- Comments
- Bindweed is an exotic that can be found on road sides, floodplains, street verges, house lawns, grazed meadows, and other disturbed ground. One record from Conejos Co (Mogotes peak hillside) shows that the plant can naturalize in the Watershed. Convolvulus arvensis can be termed prolific, for more than one reason. It propagates both by seed and rhizome. Root systems are sizeable and reach a depth of two feet after only two weeks of growth. The seeds are nearly indestructible, remaining viable inside birds for up to 144 hours. It has been reported from every state of the USA, and follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico and Texas down to the Gulf of Mexico. It is on Colorado's C list of "noxious weeds."
- Annotation