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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

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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

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales

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