Cuscuta indecora Choisy
Detail
- Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Botanical Name
- Cuscuta indecora Choisy
- Common Name
- Big-seed Alfalfa Dodder, Large-seed Dodder, Pretty Dodder
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Cuscuta indecora Choisy
- Comments
- Habitat
- Salt scrub and marshes, weedy clearings and roadsides, and disturbed wetlands in the Coastal Plain; reported to parasitize Iva frutescens and plants of the Asteraceae and Fabaceae, especially Lespedeza spp. ; disjunct to a Shenandoah Valley sinkhole pond in Augusta County, where parasitic on Stachys hyssopifolia, Helenium virginicum, and other forbs.Rare throughout, but most records are from the estuarine zones of the Coastal Plain.
- Native Status
- Native
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