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Gardening

intheflow

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3. Bind weed, the bane of my existence.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Fri Jul 19, 2013, 10:54 PM

Jul 2013

So beautiful stretched across swaths of open fields on the plains. So unrelenting and deadly in my gardens, wants to choke every other plant, you can't kill it, even with toxic chemicals, and I hear-tell the seeds can stay germinated for up to 20 years. I loved it when I first moved west from Massachusetts, but I am SO over it now.

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Can somebody identify these small white flowers? [View all] raccoon Jul 2013 OP

Looks like bindweed (convolvulus). The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2013 #1

Field bindweed, perhaps - hard to tell detail from your pic, but... NRaleighLiberal Jul 2013 #2

Bind weed, the bane of my existence. intheflow Jul 2013 #3