bindweed
Garden's clinging nightmare
Bindweed is a climbing or trailing plant with twining stems that wrap around other plants and structures.
The name captures how it binds itself to whatever it grows near.
Considered a stubborn weed in gardens, bindweed spreads aggressively through underground roots and is notoriously difficult to eradicate: The bindweed had strangled the tomato plants.
Twining flowering plant
- perennialRecurring each year
- herbaceousHaving soft green stems
- climberOne who scales
- groundcoverLow plants blanketing soil
Harmful, especially when inhaled
- infestationPest takeover situation
- eradicationTotal elimination of something
- controlAuthority to direct
- overrunSpread throughout uncontrollably
encroach · outcompete · aggressive · unwanted · persistent · stubborn · tenacious · relentless
Wrapping around spirally
- spiralCurve winding around center
- coilingLooping around repeatedly
- entwiningTwisting things together
- wrappingOuter covering material
strangling · climbing · curling · helix · clockwise · counterclockwise · constricting · clasping
convolvulus
Twining flowering plant
- perennialRecurring each year
- herbaceousHaving soft green stems
- climberOne who scales
groundcover · flora · vine · creeper
noxious
Harmful, especially when inhaled
- infestationPest takeover situation
- eradicationTotal elimination of something
- controlAuthority to direct
overrun · encroach · outcompete · aggressive · unwanted · persistent · stubborn · tenacious · relentless · ineradicable
twining
Wrapping around spirally
wrapping · strangling · climbing · curling · helix · clockwise · counterclockwise · constricting · clasping · grasping
bloom
Flower or flourishing state
funnel-shaped · petal · nectar · pollinator · bee · butterfly · meadow · hedgerow · roadside · field
twining
Wrapping around spirally
sprouting · tendrils · runners · rhizomes · rooting · creeping · scrambling · rambling · stolons · regrowth
- climbing vinessweet pea, wisteria, morning glory, honeysuckle, grape
- vinesvine, climbing vine, grape vine, ivy, wisteria
- weedingthistles, crabgrass, hoeing, hand weeding, herbicide
- weedsdandelion, crabgrass, thistle, nettles, ragweed
- wildflowersblack-eyed Susan, black-eyed Susans, daisy, buttercup, bluebonnets
- garden escapesmint, bamboo, morning glory, ivy, English ivy
bindweedclematis
Climbing ornamental flowering vine
honeysuckle · wisteria · ornamental plant · jasmine · climbing rose