If you let it grow and bloom, be sure to remove the plant before it goes to seed to prevent future unwanted recurrence. Also known as bluevine, climbing milkweed, dogâs-collar, Enslenâs vine, peavine, sandvine, smooth anglepod, or smooth swallow-wort, honeyvine milkweed is aggressive and invasive. The slender stems are light green to bright red and round, angular, or slightly ridged. According to the Compendium, our guy, climbing hempvine, is only found within its native range. But the easiest way to tell the difference is the flowers. Reports that it has been introduced, naturalized and become invasive in places like Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific might be due to misidentification and that the real villain is M. micranthia, mile-a-minute. The following species have been listed on an invasive species list or noxious weed law in North America. Common Names: Climbing false buckwheat (1), false buckwheat (4) Etymology: âFallopiaâ is named in honor of the 16th century Italian anatomist Gabriello Fallopio, âScandensâ comes from the Latin scansus, âto climbâ. Give me a wild buckwheat seedling any day! Photo: Logan Senack, UConn Closeâup of native climbing false buckwheat leaf. Black bindweed is a fast growing weedy annual plant that can be invasive. Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida > Order Caryophyllales > Family Polygonaceae > Genus Fallopia Climbing False Buckwheat ⦠Climbing False Buckwheat& Black Bindweed Native climbing false buckwheat flowers and winged fruits. Invasive herbaceous vine ... Mileâaâminute Vine vs. Invasive and Exotic Vines . scandens. The wild buckwheat leaves are much more spade or arrow like than bindweed. Read about ⦠Climbing False Buckwheat Fallopia scandens (LInnaeus) Holub Synonyms: Bilderdykia scandens, Polygonum acadens, Polygonum scandens var. Close × Share This Page. The broadly used generic name, Polygonum, is a combination of the Greek Poly, âmanyâ, and gonon, âknees ⦠Wild buckwheat ⦠Climbing Buckwheat Fallopia scandens Knotweed family (Polygonaceae) Description: This herbaceous perennial plant is a twining vine up to 20' long that can climb adjacent vegetation and fences, otherwise it sprawls across the ground. Invasive: A species that causes environmental harm. Like many weeds, it has several common names, such as climbing knotweed, black bindweed, and corn bindweed. Invasive species are very aggressive and out-compete and displace native flora and fauna. For more information on each species, including the listing sources, images, and publication links, click on ⦠Climbing false buckwheat is a perennial plant that can have showy flowers but is fast growing and aggressive. × New and Unread Tree-Mails. The only place where the ⦠Once the plant has bloomed and produced seeds, your property will forever have this vine. The other native, Climbing False Buckwheat (Fallopia scandens), is similar to Black-bindweed as it lacks the cilia fringe at the leaf nodes and its flower clusters are also generally unbranched, but its small obscure flowers develop quickly into large hanging fruits with prominent wings on the three outer tepals and its mature seeds ⦠Plant database entry for Climbing False Buckwheat (Fallopia scandens) with 9 images, one comment, and 35 data details.