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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cuscuta pentagona
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
Go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out this Key to the Dodders of Alabama from Daniel Spaulding (Phytoneuron).
Read about the remarkably similar Dodder Laurel from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Read more about Cuscuta at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta pentagona var. pentagona
FAMILY
Cuscutaceae
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cuscuta pentagona var. pentagona
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cuscuta pentagona var. pubescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH Key to the dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013)
Cuscuta pentagona
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-01-004:
Cuscuta pentagona FAMILY Convolvulaceae
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cuscuta campestris
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cuscuta pentagona
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cuscuta pentagona
COMMON NAME:
Five-angled Dodder
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_cuar2_001_lvd
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USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970 swus_page_299
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JK Marlow jkm140913_712
September Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Pedicels slightly shorter than to longer than flwrs, thus inflorescences loose, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm140913_712b
September Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm140913_719
September Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Flowers 5-merous, 1.5-2.5mm long; stems not especially slender, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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JK Marlow jkm140913_726
September Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Calyx lobes overlapping, forming definite angles, thus flowers strongly angled, per Weakley's Flora.
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Keith Bradley kab_c_pentagona_77281
September Miami-Dade County FL
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Keith Bradley kab_c_pentagona_77306
September Miami-Dade County FL
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Keith Bradley kab_c_pentagona_77319
September Miami-Dade County FL
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cuscuta pentagona
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta pentagona var. pentagona
FAMILY
Cuscutaceae
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cuscuta pentagona var. pentagona
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cuscuta pentagona var. pubescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Key to the dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013)
Cuscuta pentagona
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-01-004:
Cuscuta pentagona
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cuscuta campestris
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cuscuta pentagona
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cuscuta pentagona
2224
Herbaceous vine
Annual
Habitat: Roadsides, fields, open disturbed areas, on a wide variety of (mostly herbaceous) hosts, especially Fabaceae, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Stems twining, often yellowish-orange, leafless
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Whitish/ Creamy
5-merous
Calyx conspicuously 5-angled
5-lobed campanulate corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p111
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p161
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