Cuscuta pentagona Engelmann. Subgenus: Grammica. Common name: Five-angled Dodder. Phenology: May-Nov. Habitat: Roadsides, fields, open disturbed areas, on a wide variety of (mostly herbaceous) hosts, especially Fabaceae. Distribution: MA, NY, MI, MN, MB, and MT south to FL, TX, and Mexico.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = C, Fl6, FNA14, G, GW2, Il, Mex, Mi, NE, NY, Pa, RAB, S, Tat, Tn, Tx, Va, W, WH3, Costea, Nesom, & Stefanović (2006a), Musselman (1986), Spaulding (2013a), Yuncker (1965); = Cuscuta pentagona Engelm. var. pentagona — K4, NcTx; = Grammica pentagona (Engelm.) W.A.Weber; > Cuscuta campestris Yunck. — F, WV; > Cuscuta pentagona Engelm. — F, WV; >< Cuscuta pentagona Engelm. var. pentagona — Gandhi, Thomas, & Hatch (1987); Cuscuta pentagona Engelm. Basionym: Cuscuta pentagona Engelm. 1842
Links to other floras: = Cuscuta pentagona - FNA14
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Heliophily ⓘ: 7
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© Alan Cressler: Cuscuta pentagona, on Dalea purpurea, Harrell Prairie, Jackson Prairie Remnant, Harrell Prairie Botanical Area, Bienville National Forest, Scott County, Mississippi 1 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Annual herbaceous, parasitic vine, lacking roots and chlorophyll and growing on a wide variety of mostly herbaceous host plants; found on roadsides and in fields and other open, disturbed areas,
Stems: Stems thread-like, yellow to bright 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 short-stalked in small clusters, white, about 1/16 in. wide, the corolla bell-shaped with 5 spreading, triangular lobes with pointed tips; the calyx is conspicuously 5-angled.
Fruits: Fruit a rounded capsule, depressed in the center, cupped by the withered flower.
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description: Annual herbaceous, parasitic vine, lacking roots and chlorophyll and growing on a wide variety of mostly herbaceous host plants; found on roadsides and in fields and other open, disturbed areas,
stems: Stems thread-like, yellow to bright 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 short-stalked in small clusters, white, about 1/16 in. wide, the corolla bell-shaped with 5 spreading, triangular lobes with pointed tips; the calyx is conspicuously 5-angled.
fruits: Fruit a rounded capsule, depressed in the center, cupped by the withered flower.
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