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Arceuthobium pusillum
Also called Dwarf Mistletoe, Small Mistletoe, Spruce Dwarf Mistletoe
Arceuthobium pusillum, the eastern dwarf mistletoe, is a species of parasitic plant in the sandalwood family Santalaceae. It is the only dwarf mistletoe that occurs in eastern North America and the smallest dwarf mistletoe in the New World. Its principal host is the black spruce (Picea mariana). It was first made known to science by Lucy Millington in 1871.
Arceuthobium pusillum is the only dwarf mistletoe that occurs in eastern North America. From west to east, its range extends from eastern Saskatchewan to Newfoundland in Canada, and from northern Minnesota to the coast of Maine in the United States:
Fir dwarf mistletoe · American dwarf mistletoe · Apache dwarf mistletoe · Azores Dwarf Mistletoe · Southwestern white pine dwarf mistletoe · Sugar pine dwarf mistletoe · Western dwarf mistletoe · Limber pine dwarf mistletoe · Pinyon dwarf mistletoe · Douglas-fir dwarf mistletoe · Huachuca Mountain dwarf mistletoe · Larch dwarf mistletoe
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arceuthobium pusillum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
