Cuscuta polygonorum Engelm.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Cuscutaceae

• Scientific Name

  Cuscuta polygonorum Engelm.

• Description

  Species Description - Fls mostly 4-merous, 2 mm, sessile or subsessile in small, dense clusters; cal as long as or longer than the cor-tube, its lobes very obtuse; cor-lobes triangular, acute, erect or ascending, commonly as long as or longer than the tube; styles very short, 0.5–0.8 mm; stigma capitate; fr cupped at base by the persistent cor, depressed-globose, commonly 2–2.5 mm high and 3 mm thick; seeds 2–4, 1–1.5 mm. N.Y. and Ont. to N.D., s. to Tenn. and Tex. On Polygonum and other hosts.

• Common Names

  smartweed-dodder