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.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Cuscuta pentagona
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta pentagona var. pentagona
FAMILY
Cuscutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-01-004:
Cuscuta pentagona
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
COMMON NAME:
Five-angled Dodder
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_cuar2_001_lvd
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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