Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cuscuta indecora
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
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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
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta indecora +
FAMILY
Cuscutaceae
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cuscuta indecora var. attenuata
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cuscuta indecora var. indecora
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cuscuta indecora var. longisepala
SYNONYMOUS WITH Key to the dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013)
Cuscuta indecora
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Cuscuta indecora var. indecora
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Cuscuta indecora var. neuropetala
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cuscuta indecora
COMMON NAME:
Bigseed Alfalfa Dodder, Pretty Dodder
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_cuin_001_lvd
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USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970 swus_page_297
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cuscuta indecora
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta indecora +
FAMILY
Cuscutaceae
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cuscuta indecora var. attenuata
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cuscuta indecora var. indecora
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cuscuta indecora var. longisepala
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Key to the dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013)
Cuscuta indecora
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Cuscuta indecora var. indecora
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Cuscuta indecora var. neuropetala
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cuscuta indecora
3693
Herbaceous vine
Annual
Habitat: Salt marshes (on Iva frutescens), pine savannahs, bogs, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
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:
Summer/Fall
Whitish/ Creamy
5-merous
5-lobed campanulate corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
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