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Cuscuta gronovii Willdenow ex Roemer & J.A. Schultes.

Non-standard. Added for North Carolina Botanical Garden planted species. Habitat: Non-standard. Added for North Carolina Botanical Garden planted species.

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Annual herbaceous, parasitic vine, lacking roots and chlorophyll and growing on a wide variety of herbaceous and woody plants, found on stream banks, in bottomland forests, bogs, marshes, swamps, wet fields and wet disturbed areas.

Stems: Stems thread-like, yellow or orange, climbing, forming twining networks, with numerous small suckers (haustoria) that attach to the host plant.

Leaves: Leaves tiny and scaly or absent.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in compact clusters and lacking surrounding bracts, white, 1/8 in. or less wide, the corolla bell-shaped with 5 spreading to reflexed, round-tipped, oval lobes.

Fruits: Fruit a rounded capsule with a thickened ridge around the tip.

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Height: to 6 ft.

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description: Annual herbaceous, parasitic vine, lacking roots and chlorophyll and growing on a wide variety of herbaceous and woody plants, found on stream banks, in bottomland forests, bogs, marshes, swamps, wet fields and wet disturbed areas.

stems: Stems thread-like, yellow or orange, climbing, forming twining networks, with numerous small suckers (haustoria) that attach to the host plant.

leaves: Leaves tiny and scaly or absent.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in compact clusters and lacking surrounding bracts, white, 1/8 in. or less wide, the corolla bell-shaped with 5 spreading to reflexed, round-tipped, oval lobes.

fruits: Fruit a rounded capsule with a thickened ridge around the tip.

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