Field bindweed

Plant

It can twine around the stems of other plants and so climb into the higher layers. This helps it meet its need for light.

No rate and no spray timing here: both come from the label and the register.

Life form

• A perennial weed. It is one of the weeds that mainly infest spring cereal crops.
• A perennial geophyte. In winter wheat crops, its above-ground part dies off with the onset of frosts.
• This weed regenerates from seed better than other root-suckering weeds; its seeds are fairly large.
• The 0–40 cm soil layer holds 50–60 % of the root system.
• In the final, fourth period of the year, stems that have set seed or been damaged by frost die off and die back to a depth of 7–10 cm.
• A root-suckering weed. By how well its fragments take root, it belongs to the low-establishment group.
• It is a root-suckering weed. It is one of the most abundant weeds, which as a rule occur in every field.

Emergence

The seeds germinated better in darkness.

Seed in the soil

The seeds are especially long-lived: the species is one of the macrobiotics, whose seeds stay alive in the soil for more than 15 years.

Favourable conditions

In the Forest-Steppe zone it predominates on southern slopes.

Where it is found

In the Forest-Steppe it is a harmful weed in maize crops.

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