NameThatPlant.net: Cuscuta suaveolens

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cuscuta suaveolens 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.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta suaveolens FAMILY Cuscutaceae

COMMON NAME:
Fringed Dodder, Lucerne Dodder, Alfalfa Dodder

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cuscuta suaveolens FAMILY Convolvulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta suaveolens FAMILY Cuscutaceae

3695

Herbaceous vine
Annual

Habitat: Fields, especially on herbaceous Fabaceae, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: South America

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
Usually 5-merous
5-lobed campanulate corolla (usually)
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

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