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Family Cuscutaceae

HAWAII - NATURALIZED

Cuscuta campestris

On Chinese Violet, Bellows AFB, Oahu

 

On Chinese Violet, Makapu'u, Oahu

 

WESTERN FIELD DODDER

Parasitic yellow-green to pale orange annual vine on dry disturbed lowland alien plants, especially legumes.  Stems lax and somewhat sticky.  Flowers 2 - 3 mm long, much smaller than Cuscuta sandwichiana; petals spreading or reflexed, white filamentous 'scales' at base of stamens.  Uncommon in Hawaii.  Native to Western North America.