Cuscuta campestris Yuncker. Subgenus: Grammica. Common name: Field Dodder, Prairie Dodder. Phenology: Late May-Nov. Habitat: Roadsides, fields, open disturbed areas, especially (but not only) on herbaceous Fabaceae. Other hosts include Acanthaceae, Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Convolvulaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Hydrophyllaceae, Polygonaceae, Solanaceae, Uerticaceae, and Verbenaceae (Costea & Tardif 2006). Distribution: Nearly cosmopolitan because of its common association with cultivated legumes, its original distribution unclear.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Taxonomy Comments: A species of hybrid derivation, with Cuscuta pentagona one of its parents.
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, Bah, F, FNA14, GW2, Il, K4, Mi, NY, Pa, RAB, Tat, Tn, Tx, Va, W, Costea, Nesom, & Stefanović (2006a), Costea, Nesom, & Stefanović (2006b), Costea, Nesom, & Stefanović (2006c), Musselman (1986), Spaulding (2013a), Yuncker (1965); = Grammica campestris (Yunck.) Hadač & Chrtek; < Cuscuta pentagona Engelm. — C, G; < Cuscuta pentagona Engelm. var. pentagona — Gandhi, Thomas, & Hatch (1987). Basionym: Cuscuta campestris Yunck. 1932 "Urbasionym:" Cuscuta pentagona Engelm. var. calycina Engelm. 1843
Links to other floras: = Cuscuta campestris - FNA14
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Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Annual herbaceous, parasitic vine lacking roots and chlorophyll, found along roadsides, in fields and in other open, disturbed areas, especially on herbaceous plants of the pea family.
Stems: Stems twining, thread-like, yellowish-orange, with numerous small suckers (haustoria) that attach to the host plant.
Leaves: Leaves tiny and scale-like or absent.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers in dense clusters of 5-25, whitish, to 1/8 in. wide, consisting of 5 triangular corolla lobes with incurved tips and 5 protruding stamens.
Fruits: Fruit a yellow-orange, rounded capsule, to 1/8 in. wide.
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Height: to several ft. (long).
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description: Annual herbaceous, parasitic vine lacking roots and chlorophyll, found along roadsides, in fields and in other open, disturbed areas, especially on herbaceous plants of the pea family.
stems: Stems twining, thread-like, yellowish-orange, with numerous small suckers (haustoria) that attach to the host plant.
leaves: Leaves tiny and scale-like or absent.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in dense clusters of 5-25, whitish, to 1/8 in. wide, consisting of 5 triangular corolla lobes with incurved tips and 5 protruding stamens.
fruits: Fruit a yellow-orange, rounded capsule, to 1/8 in. wide.
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