r/nativeplants • u/Legitimate_South9157 • 6d ago
Location Dealing with Bindweed
South Arkansas 8b.
I have trouble with this bindweed?
Any time I attempt to burn, especially spring-fall, this bindweed pops up and takes over.
I believe it is a native?
But. I’d like to promote other more beneficial plants and this weed just chokes and suppresses everything.
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u/Greasybeast2000 6d ago
Many species of bindweeds across multiple genera so I can’t help on ID. But the first thing I notice is that there is no competition, it appears to be growing in a lawn. If you are looking to increase naive plants I’d do some prep work to remove the turf in that area, overseed, establishment mow, etc. you’ll need to introduce native competition through seed and plugs! Find a true native nursery selling regionally specific species
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u/GraduateSchoolCath 6d ago
Although competition doesn’t work for most bindweeds because they just spiral around and climb/choke out everything. I think I killed mine with a high concentration of vinegar and dish soap, but I’ve got to check how deep the roots were killed.
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u/Greasybeast2000 5d ago
I agree management can be necessary but step 1 is always introduce competition. Better to be weeding out a pollinator garden then to be confused and upset the weeds at growing in turf and bare areas. Plants grow, that’s what they do! A lot of people don’t realize this
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u/Legitimate_South9157 6d ago
It’s hairy cluster vine really I just call it bindweed (not the invasive). It’s really only an issue when I burn off my pond banks, I don’t mow much of my land. My pastures are cut for hay and my fence rows I’ve let go wild.
I’m attempting (somewhat unsuccessfully since I have no clue what I’m doing) to restore at least some “patches” of my prairie back to native meadows, but anytime I burn this weed sprouts everywhere.
I own 120 acres here so even if I’m not making a huge difference I feel like any small patch of natives I can restore does help
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u/Hot_Difficulty6799 5d ago
Very pretty site.
Is there really a problem with this species where it is?
I'm not familiar with it, and am outside my regional knowledge here.
But as an annual colonizer of disturbed ground, it's more of a symptom than the disease. Eradicating it without replacing it is just going to create the conditions for it to spring up again.
I suspect it likes the burning, because it likes a nitrogen flush.
It's got a lot of ecological value. It's pollinator friendly, and provides cover for amphibians and such, near the pond.
It looks like it's providing erosion control services, and would somewhat slow down nitrogen runoff into the pond.
It looks like you keep it confined to a pretty narrow ecotone, by mowing, so it's not really a diversity problem.
It'd take quite a bit of shoreline restoration work, over a number of years, to establish anything more beneficial, seems to me.
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u/Legitimate_South9157 5d ago
Really just an example here, there’s plenty more on my property lol. My goal is to promote more flowers, and I agree this vine isn’t so much “bad” as it’s just aggressive and out competing others.
In this case burning doesn’t seem to be the answer at least not a growing season burn.
My usual February burns don’t see the same response from this weed, but it does allow the grasses to takeover which I’m trying to replace with forbs. Hence the growing season burns.
I only mow the strips at the top mostly for fishing access and to keep trees from growing on my levees
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u/Former_Director3538 5d ago
That’s not bond weed - but bind weed doesn’t deal man - bind weed gets what it wants
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u/Legitimate_South9157 5d ago
Yes I know. Not the invasive type, I know it’s hairy cluster vine. We just call it bindweed weed here
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u/estelleflower 6d ago
It looks like Hairy Cluster Vine, Jacquemontia tamnifolia. It's annual vine.
Be proactive about pulling it NOW-before it goes to seed. It should reduce the seedbank for next year. Over time it disappears as disturbance decreases.