Cuscuta pentagona gallery
Field Dodder Gallery
Plant form
The dodder pierces its host with a modified root called a haustoria. At that point the dodder becomes parasitic drawing its' nutrients from its' host plant. When that happens the part that came out of the soil dies and falls off. The dodder is now completely dependent on its' host plant.
Lansford (Carbon Co)
by Pap Knauss on 09/05/2023
Flowers
The flowers have inward curved tips on the petals.
Lansford (Carbon Co)
by Pap Knauss on 09/05/2023
Plants in flower
Cuscuta species are holoparasites.