Check out this Key to the Dodders of Alabama from Daniel Spaulding (Phytoneuron).
Read about the remarkably similar Dodder Laurel from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Cuscuta polygonorum
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta polygonorum
FAMILY
Cuscutaceae
COMMON NAME:
Smartweed Dodder
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_cupo_001_lvd