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Cuscuta pacifica
Also called Coastal Dodder, Goldenthread, Pacific Goldenthread, Coastal Saltmarsh Dodder, Salt Marsh Dodder
Cuscuta pacifica is a slender, yellowish, rootless annual vine that parasitizes salt marsh plants along the Pacific coast of North America. It is a species, not a commonly grown garden plant, and it cannot be grown without a host plant.
Cuscuta pacifica is a species of dodder. Its common name is goldenthread.
The plant is native to the coast of western North America from British Columbia to Baja California. It is a halophyte, living in coastal salt marsh habitats, such as the San Francisco Bay.
Alfalfa dodder · Field dodder · Cuscuta monogyna · Fiveangled dodder · Saltmarsh dodder · Kauna'oa · Dodder
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cuscuta pacifica 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.
