NameThatPlant.net: Orobanche minor

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Orobanche minor FAMILY Orobanchaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.

Read about Bean Stranglers from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.

Small Broomrape is unbranched and without chlorophyll; it is thus brown to yellowish in color. The flowers are crowded near the top, pale yellowish and tubular. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orobanche minor FAMILY Orobanchaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Orobanche minor

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)

Orobanche minor

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 169-03-002:

Orobanche minor FAMILY Orobanchaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Orobanche minor

COMMON NAME:
Lesser Broomrape, Small Broomrape, Hellroot

To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.

image of Orobanche minor, Lesser Broomrape, Small Broomrape, Hellroot

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ormi_001_lvd

USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970 swus_page_345

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Orobanche minor FAMILY Orobanchaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orobanche minor FAMILY Orobanchaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Orobanche minor

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
Orobanche minor

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 169-03-002:
Orobanche minor FAMILY Orobanchaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Orobanche minor

2458

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Mesic hammocks, cultivated fields, parasitic on various hosts, especially Trifolium, Nicotiana tabacum, and Solanum lycopersicum, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Eurasia

Rare

map
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INVASIVE

This plant is causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

LEAVES:

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Creamy-yellowish
2-lipped 4-lobed calyx
5-lobed corolla
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Brown
Capsule

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p094

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