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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Cuscuta gronovii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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.
Read more about Cuscuta at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta gronovii var. gronovii
FAMILY
Cuscutaceae
INCLUDING
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Cuscuta gronovii var. latiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-01-008:
Cuscuta gronovii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
COMMON NAME:
Common Dodder
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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JK Marlow jkm140809_419
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140809_421
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140809_424
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140809_427
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
All Cuscuta species are leafless, annual parasitic herbs, per Key to the Dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and Adjacent States (Spaulding, 2013).
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JK Marlow jkm140823_063
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140823_065
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140823_070
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Flowers not subtended by bracts (or occ. 1 bract). Sepals ~ united basally, per Key to the Dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and Adjacent States (Spaulding, 2013).
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JK Marlow jkm140823_073
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140823_078
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Flowers pedicellate, corolla lobes more than 1mm long and mostly obtuse, per Key to the Dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and Adjacent States (Spaulding, 2013).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Cuscuta gronovii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta gronovii var. gronovii
FAMILY
Cuscutaceae
INCLUDING
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Cuscuta gronovii var. latiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-01-008:
Cuscuta gronovii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
415
Herbaceous vine
Annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it on a very wide variety of herbaceous and woody plants, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Stems twining, often yellowish-orange, leafless
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Whitish/ Creamy
5-merous
5-lobed campanulate corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p404
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p322
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p031
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p160
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p106
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p071
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p199
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p237