Cuscuta europaea L.

CUSCUTACEAE

- Dodder family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Cuscuta europaea L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 124 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Greater dodder

English name: European dodder

English name: greater dodder

Italian name: Cuscuta europea

German name: Nessel-Seide

Grown habit: Vine, Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Solanales
Family: Cuscutaceae
Genus: Cuscuta
Species:

Page counter: 1573 ( AVG: 222.09 / 291.169 )

Gallery:

Cuscuta europaea
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

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Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Cuscuta europaea
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Cuscuta europaea
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Cuscuta europaea
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Cuscuta europaea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Chiusaforte, lungo la strada per Tarvisio., UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Cuscuta europaea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Berlin, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Cuscuta europaea
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Cuscuta europaea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Cuscuta europaea
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Cuscuta europaea
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Cuscuta europaea
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Cuscuta europaea
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Cuscuta europaea
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (ME)

Distributional map for Cuscuta europaea L.
Map for Cuscuta europaea L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Cuscuta glabrior (Engelm.) Yunck. [160]
2) Cuscuta glabrior (Engelm.) Yunck. var. pubescens (Engelm.) Yunck. [97]
3) Cuscuta glandulosa (Engelm.) Small [141]
4) Cuscuta gronovii Willd. ex Schult. var. curta Engelm. [140]
5) Cuscuta gronovii Willd. ex Schult. var. saururi (Engelm.) MacMill. [169]
6) Cuscuta jepsonii Yunck. [159]
7) Cuscuta planiflora Ten. [191]
8) Cuscuta umbellata Kunth var. reflexa (J.M. Coult.) Yunck. [141]
9) Cuthbertia graminea Small [91]
10) Cyanea angustifolia (Cham.) Hillebr. var. racemosa Hillebr. [90]

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