Convolvulus arvensis L.
(Field Bindweed)

Interactions where Convolvulus arvensis is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
(live)		live is parasitised by			Erysiphe convolvuli	Bindweed Mildew	Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe convolvuli/	Erysiphe convolvuli	bindweed mildew					Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Convolvulaceae/Convolvulus arvensis/	Convolvulus arvensis	field bindweed		live						parasitises live
anther (swollen, stunted, sub-sessile)		swollen, stunted, sub-sessile anther is galled by Thecaphorella anamorph			Thecaphora seminis-convolvuli	a seed smut fungus	Urocystidales: Glomosporiaceae	Thecaphora seminis-convolvuli (Desm.) S. Ito and Gloeosporium antherarum Oud., Ellis, E.A., 1962 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Ustilaginales of the British Isles, Mordue, J.E.M. & Ainsworth G.C., 1984 Bioimages - the Virtual Field Guide, Storey, M.W., 2015	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Ustilaginomycetes/Urocystidales/Glomosporiaceae/Thecaphora seminis-convolvuli/	Thecaphora seminis-convolvuli	a seed smut fungus				Thecaphorella anamorph	Foodplant / gall		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Convolvulaceae/Convolvulus arvensis/	Convolvulus arvensis	field bindweed		swollen, stunted, sub-sessile	anther				(6-10)	Thecaphorella anamorph causes gall of swollen, stunted, sub-sessile anther
flower (live)		live flower is foodplant of adult			Thrips atratus	Carnation Thrips	Thysanoptera: Thripidae	Thrips, Kirk, W.D.J., 1996	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Thripidae/Thrips atratus/	Thrips atratus	carnation thrips				adult	Foodplant / feeds on		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Convolvulaceae/Convolvulus arvensis/	Convolvulus arvensis	field bindweed		live	flower					adult feeds on live flower
leaf		leaf is galled by			Eriophyes convolvuli	a gall mite	Trombidiformes: Eriophyidae	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Trombidiformes/Eriophyidae/Eriophyes convolvuli/	Eriophyes convolvuli	a gall mite					Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Convolvulaceae/Convolvulus arvensis/	Convolvulus arvensis	field bindweed			leaf					causes gall of leaf
leaf		leaf is grazed by larva			Longitarsus pellucidus	Field Bindweed Flea Beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae), Kevan D.K., 1967	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Longitarsus pellucidus/	Longitarsus pellucidus	field bindweed flea beetle				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Convolvulaceae/Convolvulus arvensis/	Convolvulus arvensis	field bindweed			leaf		Sole			larva grazes on leaf
leaf		leaf is grazed by adult			Longitarsus pellucidus	Field Bindweed Flea Beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae), Kevan D.K., 1967	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Longitarsus pellucidus/	Longitarsus pellucidus	field bindweed flea beetle				adult	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Convolvulaceae/Convolvulus arvensis/	Convolvulus arvensis	field bindweed			leaf					adult grazes on leaf
leaf (fading)		fading leaf is spotted by epiphyllous, immersed, brown pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph			Septoria convolvuli	a leaf-spot fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Septoria convolvuli/	Septoria convolvuli	a leaf-spot fungus		epiphyllous, immersed, brown	pycnidium	Septoria coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Convolvulaceae/Convolvulus arvensis/	Convolvulus arvensis	field bindweed		fading	leaf				(7-8)	epiphyllous, immersed, brown pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph causes spots on fading leaf
leaf (fading)		fading leaf is spotted by few, hypophyllous, immersed, pallid pycnidium of Stagonospora coelomycetous anamorph			Stagonospora calystegiae	a coelomycete	Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae	Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995 British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Phaeosphaeriaceae/Stagonospora calystegiae/	Stagonospora calystegiae	a coelomycete		few, hypophyllous, immersed, pallid	pycnidium	Stagonospora coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Convolvulaceae/Convolvulus arvensis/	Convolvulus arvensis	field bindweed		fading	leaf				(7-9)	few, hypophyllous, immersed, pallid pycnidium of Stagonospora coelomycetous anamorph causes spots on fading leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph			Ramularia convolvuli	(An Anamorphic Fungus)	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Ramularia convolvuli/	Ramularia convolvuli	(an anamorphic fungus)			colony	Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Convolvulaceae/Convolvulus arvensis/	Convolvulus arvensis	field bindweed		live	leaf					colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by stromatic Fusicladium anamorph			Fusicladium convolvularum	an anamorphic fungus	Venturiales: Venturiaceae	The genus Fusicladium (Hyphomycetes) in Poland, Ruszkiewicz-Michalska, M. & Polec, E., 2006	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Fusicladium convolvularum/	Fusicladium convolvularum	an anamorphic fungus		stromatic		Fusicladium anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Convolvulaceae/Convolvulus arvensis/	Convolvulus arvensis	field bindweed		live	leaf					stromatic Fusicladium anamorph causes spots on live leaf
seeds (in capsule)		seeds (in capsule) may be infected and damaged by immersed sorus			Thecaphora seminis-convolvuli	a seed smut fungus	Urocystidales: Glomosporiaceae	Thecaphora seminis-convolvuli (Desm.) S. Ito and Gloeosporium antherarum Oud., Ellis, E.A., 1962 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ustilaginales of the British Isles, Mordue, J.E.M. & Ainsworth G.C., 1984	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Ustilaginomycetes/Urocystidales/Glomosporiaceae/Thecaphora seminis-convolvuli/	Thecaphora seminis-convolvuli	a seed smut fungus		immersed		sorus	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Convolvulaceae/Convolvulus arvensis/	Convolvulus arvensis	field bindweed			seeds (in capsule)				(8-10)	immersed sorus infects and damages seeds (in capsule)
stem		stem may contain larva			Melanagromyza albocilia	a leaf-mining fly	Diptera: Agromyzidae	The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Melanagromyza albocilia/	Melanagromyza albocilia	a leaf-mining fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Convolvulaceae/Convolvulus arvensis/	Convolvulus arvensis	field bindweed			stem					larva feeds within stem

Author & Year	Title	Source
Braun, U., 1998	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II	Phytopathogenic Hyphomycetes, 2, 493pp, IHW-Verlag
Bullock, J.A., 1992	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations	11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Dennis, R.W.G., 1995	Fungi of the South East England	383pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ellis, E.A., 1962	Thecaphora seminis-convolvuli (Desm.) S. Ito and Gloeosporium antherarum Oud.	Kew Bulletin 16: 251-252.
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Grove, W.B., 1935	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia	Vol I, 488pp, Cambridge University Press
Ing, B., 1990	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews	Mycologist Vol 4 (1) et seq.
Kevan D.K., 1967	The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae)	Ent. Mon. Mag. Vol 103: 83-110.
Kirk, W.D.J., 1996	Thrips	Naturalists' Handbooks, 25, 70pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota	517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Mordue, J.E.M. & Ainsworth G.C., 1984	Ustilaginales of the British Isles	Mycological Papers, No 154, 96pp, Commonwealth Mycological Institute
Ruszkiewicz-Michalska, M. & Polec, E., 2006	The genus Fusicladium (Hyphomycetes) in Poland	Acta Mycologica Vol 41 (2): 285-298.
Spencer, K.A., 1976	The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark	Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 5 (parts 1 and 2), 606pp, Scandinavian Science Press
Storey, M.W., 2015	Bioimages - the Virtual Field Guide	www.bioimages.org.uk
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls	95pp, British Plant Gall Society (BPGS)

Convolvulus arvensis (Field Bindweed) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

CONVOLVULACEAE
(bindweeds & dodders)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

Climbing plants
(climbing plants)

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants
(trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Convolvulus arvensis (Field Bindweed)
Genus	Convolvulus (a genus of flowering plants)
Family	CONVOLVULACEAE (bindweeds & dodders)
Order	SOLANALES (bindweeds and nightshades)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Convolvulus arvensis (Field Bindweed)

Convolvulus arvensis (Field Bindweed) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

CONVOLVULACEAE
(bindweeds & dodders)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants
(trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Convolvulus arvensis (Field Bindweed):

CONVOLVULACEAE
(bindweeds & dodders)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants
(trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers)

BioImages

BioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 22 images of Convolvulus arvensis (Field Bindweed)

Creative Commons License

This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioInfo website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

BioInfo - Wildlife Information (UK)