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Convolvulaceae
Cuscuta

not marked as a favorite taxon Cuscuta pentagona Engelmann. 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.

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Subgenus: Grammica.

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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image #1 of Cuscuta pentagona© 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 ⭷
image #2 of Cuscuta pentagona© Alan M. Cressler | Original Image ⭷
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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

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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