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 gronovii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
GREATER THAN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta gronovii var. gronovii
FAMILY
Cuscutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 158-01-008:
Cuscuta gronovii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
GREATER THAN
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Cuscuta gronovii var. latiflora
COMMON NAME:
Common Dodder
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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).