Israel wildflowers: One-sided bindweed
Convolvulus secundus, One-sided bindweed,
Hebrew: חבלבל החוף, Arabic: لبلاب وحيد الجانب
| Scientific name: | Convolvulus secundus Desr. | |
| Common name: | One-sided bindweed | |
| Hebrew name: | חבלבל החוף | |
| Arabic name: | لبلاب وحيد الجانب | |
| Plant Family: | Convolvulaceae, חבלבליים |
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| Life form: | Chamaephyte, semi-shrub | |
| Stems: | clothed with rusty tomentum, stem flexuous, a little branched; terete | |
| Leaves: | Alternate, entire | |
| Flowers: | Pink, white, corolla rather villous outside | |
| Fruits / pods: | Capsule | |
| Flowering Period: | April, May, June, July, August | |
| Habitat: | Sand | |
| Distribution: | Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands | |
| Chorotype: | Mediterranean | |
| Summer shedding: | Perennating |
 Derivation of the botanical name: Convolvulus, Latin, convolvere, “to twine around”; “a bindweed” (Plinius), from convolvo, volvi, volutum, ere “to droll together, roll up, intertwine.”
secundus, following, next, second; in a row, leaves on one side, secund.
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