Morning glory, or bindweed?

I have this growing at the foot of my shelter outside. Last year I grew morning glory there but I thought it was an annual and it died off as expected by winter. I do get bindweed creeping in from the neighbours at the far end, but I spray that every spring to keep it at bay, and it never usually makes it anywhere near where this pic is. I'm ruthless with bindweed, and spray it as soon as I see it, but I'm not sure if this is last year's morning glory that's maybe self seeded, or bindweed. It seems a bit of a coincidence that it's exactly where the morning glory was but you can't be too careful when it comes to bindweed, as once it gets a foothold it's a fair old battle to eradicate it.

 

I'd say it's probably bindweed.
I did grow a dark purple morning glory some years ago that self seeded, can't remember the name now.
But I don't think many do although it was a mild winter.

 

According to "Picture This" it is Morning Glory. Must have self-seeded.

 

Though its leaves certainly look like Morning Glory leaves they are probably Bindweed. Unless you had grown MG before it's highly unlikely it's a domesticated form. Wild plants seed all over the place & are perennial with very long long thick white roots. They also reproduce from even tiny bits of root if you don't remove EVERY scrap completely! The big white flowers are quite pretty but it's a terrible thug of a plant as after a couple of years it will smother everything in its way!

I've grown Morning Glories for a great many years & most years have some plants growing on our balcony, up strings normally - but this year a self-sown plant has appeared & is now flowering in one of my hanging baskets.
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Photos taken today of the 'Morning Glory' flowering in one of the hanging baskets on our balcony.
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These Morning Glories are annual plants so not invasive & the birds have no interest in their seeds.

My self-sown plant probably came from a seed that somehow got into the compost from last years plants that climbed up the strings.

There are many different colours & I have had many lovely displays over the 20+ years I've grown them on our balcony. I can't show you any more photos from previous years as I'm using my laptop computer & not my desktop computer where the great majority of my pictures are stored.

 

It is exactly where I grew morning glory last year, but I'm very suspicious of bindweed. I might spray it anyway.

 

A weed is any plant not growing where it is wanted so if it is not wanted - spray it.

 

Does seem a coincidence where it's come up, so maybe is ipomoea. If it's calystegia then you can deal with it accordingly once you identify it when it flowers

 

Pessimist! It looks like Morning Glory to me. Mine self-sow all over the place every year.

 

I think it's probably morning glory. Some more has appeared on the other side of the shelter, also where we grew it last year.

But I'm going to spray it anyway. Why? Because it looks far too similar to bindweed. If actual bindweed appears, I want to spot it immediately, because I can't have it getting a foothold as it's a nightmare to get rid of once it's established. We grew morning glory last year, and foolishly I let that happen even knowing it's related to bindweed, I didn't think it through. I wanted an annual climber with pretty flowers to grow up the trellis sides of my shelter, and morning glory just happened to be in the shop when we were looking.

 

Why waste chemicals on it? It pulls out easily enough. Or....dig it up carefully and transplant it somewhere it can flower and not be confused with bindweed!

 

I pulled some out by the roots and left it on the patio in the sun to dry out. A couple of days later it rained, and it looked like it had come back to life. If there's any possibility it is bindweed, or if it might hide any bindweed that might get in, it has to go.

I fought a bindweed war once before. It took about two years and even though I tried to protect my plants, there was some collateral damage. Now I'm very much on guard against it, perhaps obsessively so.

 

Try stuffing some growth into a plastic bag (while it’s still growing that is), then spray it in the bag with round up, secure the bag and wait for it to die.

 

Perhaps best to specify Round Up Total weedkiller which does contain glyphosate, not Round Up Naturally which doesn't.