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Cuscuta salina
Also called Goldenthread, Salt Dodder, Salt Flats Dodder
Saltmarsh dodder is a leafless, yellow-orange parasitic annual vine that wraps around host plants, mainly salt-tolerant species in coastal and saline wetlands. It cannot be grown as an ordinary garden plant; it survives only by parasitizing a host.
Cuscuta salina is a species of dodder known by the English name salt marsh dodder and is a native plant of western North America. The habitat includes coastal tidal wetlands in California, as well as saline habitats away from the coast, such as vernal pools and salt flats. Salt Marsh Dodder is a parasitic plant, wrapping orange-colored stems around natural wetland vegetation and absorbing nutrients of host plants via their specialized structures called haustoria.
Alfalfa dodder · Field dodder · Cuscuta monogyna · Large Saltmarsh Dodder · Fiveangled dodder · Kauna'oa · Dodder
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cuscuta salina 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.
