OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cuscuta pentagona   FAMILY Convolvulaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta pentagona var. pentagona   FAMILY Cuscutaceae

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Cuscuta pentagona var. pentagona

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Cuscuta pentagona var. pubescens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Key to the dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013)

Cuscuta pentagona

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-01-004:

Cuscuta pentagona   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Cuscuta campestris

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Cuscuta pentagona

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Cuscuta pentagona

 

COMMON NAME:
Five-angled Dodder


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image of Cuscuta pentagona, Five-angled Dodder

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_cuar2_001_lvd

        

image of Cuscuta pentagona, Five-angled Dodder

USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970    swus_page_299

        

image of Cuscuta pentagona, Five-angled Dodder

JK Marlow    jkm140913_712

September    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Pedicels slightly shorter than to longer than flwrs, thus inflorescences loose, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Cuscuta pentagona, Five-angled Dodder

JK Marlow    jkm140913_712b

September    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Cuscuta pentagona, Five-angled Dodder

JK Marlow    jkm140913_719

September    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Flowers 5-merous, 1.5-2.5mm long; stems not especially slender, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

image of Cuscuta pentagona, Five-angled Dodder

JK Marlow    jkm140913_726

September    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Calyx lobes overlapping, forming definite angles, thus flowers strongly angled, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Cuscuta pentagona, Five-angled Dodder

Keith Bradley    kab_c_pentagona_77281

September    Miami-Dade County    FL

image of Cuscuta pentagona, Five-angled Dodder

Keith Bradley    kab_c_pentagona_77306

September    Miami-Dade County    FL

image of Cuscuta pentagona, Five-angled Dodder

Keith Bradley    kab_c_pentagona_77319

September    Miami-Dade County    FL

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cuscuta pentagona   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta pentagona var. pentagona   FAMILY Cuscutaceae

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cuscuta pentagona var. pentagona

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cuscuta pentagona var. pubescens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Key to the dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013)
Cuscuta pentagona

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-01-004:
Cuscuta pentagona   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cuscuta campestris

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cuscuta pentagona

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cuscuta pentagona

 

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2224

Herbaceous vine
Annual

Habitat: Roadsides, fields, open disturbed areas, on a wide variety of (mostly herbaceous) hosts, especially Fabaceae, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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LEAVES:
Stems twining, often yellowish-orange, leafless

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Whitish/ Creamy
5-merous
Calyx conspicuously 5-angled
5-lobed campanulate corolla
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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