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Cuscuta campestris

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Yuncker

Common Names

• Yuan ye tu si zi (Pinyin)
• Western Field Dodder
• Liane Z'amitié (Guadeloupe
• Martinique)
• Liane Vermicelle (Guadeloupe
• Martinique)

Geographical Habitats

• Manitoba
• Quebec
• Saskatchewan - Canada
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• Hispaniola
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Alabama
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• District of Colombia
• Florida
• Georgia
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia - USA
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Sandy woodland

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Aug
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar

Twining parasitic herb with yellowish slender stems, pale yellow foliage. Loose lateral clusters of flowers with bracts 2mm x 2mm flowers to 3mm long, 5 calyx lobes, 5 reflexed corolla lobes to 1mm long, seed capsule 3mm diameter with persistent calyx & corolla

Parasite of carrot & sugar beet & others, shrubland. Now cosmopolitan

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• FONZ
• FOH
• The Plant List 2
• Flora Malesiana
• JAA
• Smithsonian
• FOSEUS
• Kew