HEDGE BINDWEED (Calystegia Sepium or Convolvulus Sepium), a perennial vine of the morning-glory family, Convolvu laceae (q.v.), called also great bindweed, bracted bindweed and Rutland beauty. It is cosmopolitan in temperate regions, oc curring in hedges and thickets in the British Isles and found in North America from Newfoundland to British Columbia and southward to Mexico. It is an extensively trailing or high climbing vine, 3 ft. to 1 o ft. high, with slender-stalked, spear shaped leaves, and handsome solitary flowers, pink with white stripes or entirely white, about 2 in. long. The species varies greatly and several races have been described, some of which are cultivated for ornament. (See CALYSTEGIA.)