Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
Check out this Key to the Dodders of Alabama from Daniel Spaulding (Phytoneuron).
Read about Japanese Dodder from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
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 (5/21/15):
Cuscuta japonica
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta japonica
FAMILY
Cuscutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Monogynella japonica
COMMON NAME:
Japanese Dodder
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USDA APHIS PPQ Archive, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org bug_1149108
Month Unknown
Look for it on Kudzu & possibly other nonnative woody plants, like Privet, per Key to the Dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and Adjacent States (Spaulding, 2013).
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USDA APHIS PPQ Archive, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org bug_1149111
Month Unknown
Apparently eradicated in Pickens County, SC, per Weakley's Flora.
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Victor Cordova, City of Houston, Urban Forestry Division, Bugwood.org bug_2121072
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Barry Rice, sarracenia.com, Bugwood.org bug_5341069
Month Unknown
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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Julia Scher, Federal Noxious Weeds Disseminules, USDA APHIS ITP, Bugwood.org bug_5376412
Month Unknown