These are wildflowers, also called weeds!

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  1. kathyd

    kathyd In Flower

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    Well, weed it might be...but it is also beautiful. Anything like it here is also white and plain, as others have mentioned before me...if I had these beauties I probably would leave in place. Does anyone know if it is a member of the morning glory family, and even more important, can it cross with my morning glories and cause my collected seed to yield disappointing results?
     
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    Sydney Smith In Flower

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    Both the large white and smaller pink flowered Bindweeds (to me there is a mild Almond scent) are really lovely flowers but as stated they are so so invasive they have to go. There is also cultivated well behaved varieties of Convolvulus - some gems in fact.
    I have over the years attempted to clear patches of this digging up yards of white root but every time although sieving the soil it always reappeared - just the tiniest piece of root missed will get it going again. Comes within the joys of gardening - the rough with the smooth - insects love those plants flowers so they are not all bad.
     
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    purpleinopp Young Pine Plants Contributor

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    It looks like an Ipomoea to me, maybe I. cordatotriloba. Are you able to add a pic of the foliage?
     
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