The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Cuscuta epilinum
Flax dodder is a leafless, yellow-orange, threadlike parasitic annual that wraps around flax and other host plants and draws food from them. It is a pest of flax crops rather than a plant grown for the garden, so the key to 'growing' it is to avoid it.
Cuscuta epilinum is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Convolvulaceae.
Its native range is Iran to Central Asia and was introduced into Europe, Canada, and other parts of the world.
Alfalfa dodder · Australian Dodder · Cuscuta babylonica · Chaparral dodder · Field dodder · Chinese Dodder · Compact dodder · Hazel dodder · Desert dodder · Dodder · Greater dodder · Rope dodder
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cuscuta epilinum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
