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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/10/25):
Cuscuta gronovii var. gronovii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
Go to FSUS key
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.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta gronovii var. gronovii
FAMILY
Cuscutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cuscuta gronovii var. gronovii
INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Cuscuta gronovii
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-01-008:
Cuscuta gronovii FAMILY Convolvulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cuscuta gronovii
COMMON NAME:
Swamp Dodder, Common Dodder
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_cugr_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm140809_419
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140809_421
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140809_424
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140809_427
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
All Cuscuta species are leafless, annual parasitic herbs, per Key to the Dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and Adjacent States (Spaulding, 2013).
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JK Marlow jkm140823_063
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140823_065
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140823_070
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Flowers not subtended by bracts (or occ. 1 bract). Sepals ~ united basally, per Key to the Dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and Adjacent States (Spaulding, 2013).
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JK Marlow jkm140823_073
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140823_078
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Flowers pedicellate, corolla lobes more than 1mm long and mostly obtuse, per Key to the Dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and Adjacent States (Spaulding, 2013).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/10/25):
Cuscuta gronovii var. gronovii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuscuta gronovii var. gronovii
FAMILY
Cuscutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cuscuta gronovii var. gronovii
INCLUDED WITHIN
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Cuscuta gronovii
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-01-008:
Cuscuta gronovii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cuscuta gronovii
415
Herbaceous vine
Annual
Habitat: Stream banks, bottomland forests, bogs, marshes, swamps, wet fields, wet disturbed areas, on a very wide variety of herbaceous and woody plants, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in SC Mountains)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Stems twining, often yellowish-orange, leafless
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Whitish/ Creamy
5-merous
5-lobed campanulate corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p404
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p322
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p111
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p160
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p106
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p071
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p160
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p199
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p237
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