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Compact Dodder (Cuscuta compacta) Mt. Mitchell State Park, Yancey Co., NC 13 Sep 2008 This is my best guess as to the ID of this dodder. It was growing on a shrub by a small stream at high elevation. |
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Compact Dodder (Cuscuta compacta) Mt. Mitchell State Park, Yancey Co., NC 13 Sep 2008 Styles appear to be separate, flowers appear to be sessile, and I think I see bracts subtending the flowers. |
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Dodder (Cuscuta sp.) Watauga Co., NC 23 July 2006 There are about a dozen species of dodder in NC, and I find them difficult to key out. This individual was growing in a thicket of blackberry and Eupatorium at ~5200' near the top of Beech Mountain |
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Dodder (Cuscuta sp.) Watauga Co., NC 23 July 2006 |
Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.
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