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Cuscuta pentagona
Also called Five Angled Dodder, Bush Clover Dodder, Field Dodder, Five Angle Dodder, Pentagon Dodder, Lespedeza Dodder
Fiveangled dodder is a slender, leafless annual parasitic vine that wraps around and draws nutrients from host plants, mainly asters. It is a weed of fields and roadsides rather than a garden plant, and the key to dealing with it is to remove infested hosts early before the vine spreads.
Cuscuta pentagona, the fiveangled dodder, is a parasitic plant in the morning glory family Convolvulaceae. It is native to North America, where it is widespread in the United States and Canada. Unlike the closely related C. campestris, it has not become established on other continents.
Cuscuta pentagona is a slender annual vine. It is parasitic on a wide range of herbaceous plants, but with particular emphasis on members of the aster family (Asteraceae).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cuscuta pentagona 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.
