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Cuscuta umbellata

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Kunth

Common Names

• Flat Globe Dodder
• Clustered Dodder
• Santa Fe Dodder

Geographical Habitats

• Bahamas
• Piaui - Brazil
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Turks & Caicos
• Arizona
• Colorado
• Florida
• Kansas
• Louisiana
• New Mexico
• Oklahoma
• Texas
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

Parasitic annual twiner sometimes prostrate with slender orange-yellow stems. Pale yellow foliage, fringed scales. 5mm long white flowers, inflorescence a cyme or umbel to 7 flowers, triangular calyx lobes, corolla to 4mm long with longer lobes. Fruit a 4-lobed capsule to 2mm across enclosed by persistent corolla.

Further References

• Mobot
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• JAA
• USDA
• FOSEUS
• USNH
• SAFIO
• NMRP
• Kew