Cuscuta compacta

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Cuscuta compacta
Cuscuta compacta AFP.jpg
Photo by the Atlas of Florida Plants Database
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Order: Solanales
Family: Cuscutaceae
Genus: Cuscuta
Species: C. compacta
Binomial name
Cuscuta compacta
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CUSC COMP DIST.JPG
Natural range of Cuscuta compacta from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Common Name: compact dodder[1][2]

Taxonomic Notes

Varieties: C. compacta var. compacta; C. compacta var. efimbriata[1][2]

Description

Distribution

C. compacta occurs from Nebraska, south to Texas, eastward to central peninsular Florida, and northward to Illinois, New York, and New Hampshire.[1][2] It has also been introduced in Quebec Canada.[2]

Ecology

Habitat

C. compacta is found on herbaceous and woody hosts in bottomland forests, stream banks, marshes, swamps, pine savannahs, wet fields, and other wet habitats.[1]

Phenology

In the southern and mid-Atlantic United States, C. compacta flowers from late July through November.[1][3]

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

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References and notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Weakley AS (2015) Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Herbarium.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 USDA NRCS (2016) The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 24 January 2018). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC 27401-4901 USA.
  3. Nelson G (24 January 2018) PanFlora. Retrieved from gilnelson.com/PanFlora/