Flora of the Southeastern United States

Intro: Annual herbaceous, parasitic vine, lacking roots and chlorophyll and growing on herbaceous and woody plants; found in bottomland forests, stream banks, marshes, swamps, pine savannas, wet fields and other wet habitats.

Stems: Stems tightly twining, coarse, yellowish-orange, with numerous small suckers (haustoria) that attach to the host plant.

Leaves: Leaves tiny and scaly or absent.

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Flowers: Flowers in dense ropy clusters, waxy, whitish to greenish, about 1/8 in. wide, consisting of a tubular corolla with spreading to reflexed lobes, and subtended by 2-5 fleshy, rounded bracts.

Fruits: Fruit a rounded to cone-shaped capsule, capped by the withered corolla, less than 1/8 in. wide.

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description: Annual herbaceous, parasitic vine, lacking roots and chlorophyll and growing on herbaceous and woody plants; found in bottomland forests, stream banks, marshes, swamps, pine savannas, wet fields and other wet habitats.

stems: Stems tightly twining, coarse, yellowish-orange, with numerous small suckers (haustoria) that attach to the host plant.

leaves: Leaves tiny and scaly or absent.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in dense ropy clusters, waxy, whitish to greenish, about 1/8 in. wide, consisting of a tubular corolla with spreading to reflexed lobes, and subtended by 2-5 fleshy, rounded bracts.

fruits: Fruit a rounded to cone-shaped capsule, capped by the withered corolla, less than 1/8 in. wide.

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