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Large Bindweed (Common Name)
Calystegia sepium subsp. Roseata (Scientific Name) A perennial herb (October - March) strong though not rampant climber and interwoven creeper, with green to burgundy stems, and heart shaped leaves, which may or may not have a burgundy edge, the leaves are up to 100mm long and 70mm wide. The upper leaf surface is a matt, green to dark green and hairless; lower leaf is of same colour and hairless. It is usually found along the margins of wet areas. Single funnel-shaped white flowers tinged with pink up to 60mm long, on stalks longer than leaf stalks,opening during the day, but closed at night. Nb. often mistaken for a weed as it looks like the garden variety Greater bindweed (Calystegia silvatica). |
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Small-leaved Clematis (Common Name)
Clematis microphylla (Scientific Name) |
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Love Creeper (Common Name)
Comesperma volubile (Scientific Name) From Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust © The State of New South Wales Distribution and habitat Grows in a range of habitats, from wet to dry sclerophyll forest to coastal heath. Found in NSW, Qld, Vic, and Tas. Description Climber with stems 1–2 m long; stems ± leafless or sparsely leaved, glabrous. Leaves linear to elliptic, 1–5 cm long, 1–5 mm wide, thin, lower surface paler, margins recurved or revolute, often reduced or caducous. Racemes axillary or occasionally terminal, up to 14 cm long, usually somewhat corymbose, often on short branches near the top of the stems; pedicels 2–3 mm long. Flowers 4–8 mm long, purplish blue, blue-mauve, pink or white, outer sepals c. 2 mm long, c. a quarter to a third as long as wing sepals; wing sepals mostly 6.5 mm long, clawed. Lateral petals spathulate, slightly longer than keel; keel with 2 oblong lateral lobes. Fruit obovate-cuneate, 10–15 mm long. |
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Pink Bindweed (Common Name)
Convolvulus erubescens spp. agg. (Scientific Name) |
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Climbing Sundew (Common Name)
Drosera macratha (Scientific Name) |
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Climbing Lignum (Common Name)
Muehlenbeckia adpressa (Scientific Name) |
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Coast Twin-leaf (Common Name)
Zygophyllum billardierei (Scientific Name) From VRO Victorian Resources Online© The State of Victoria, 1996 - 2016. Distribution and habitat Native to all Australian States, scattered throughout coastal sand dunes and in the far north-west Mallee. Usually growing on poor, arid sites. Scattered throughout coastal sand dunes and in the far north-west Mallee. Usually growing on poor, arid sites. Description Prostrate to ascending perennial herb to subshrub from 20-40 cm high. Has flattened leaves divided into two oblong to wedge-shaped leaflets of 1-3 cm long. Flowers are pale to bright yellow (fading to white with age) and of 4 petals, 8-15 mm long. Fruit is a 4-angled capsule, containing 1-2 brown, wrinkled to granular seeds in each cell. |
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