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
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out this Key to the Dodders of Alabama from Daniel Spaulding (Phytoneuron).
Read about the remarkably similar Dodder Laurel from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Read more about Cuscuta at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta pentagona var. pentagona
FAMILY
Cuscutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-01-004:
Cuscuta pentagona FAMILY Convolvulaceae
COMMON NAME:
Five-angled Dodder
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
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-01-004:
Cuscuta pentagona
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
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