Calflora: Cuscuta californica

Cuscuta californica Hook. & Arn.

California dodder, chaparral dodder

Cuscuta californica, a dicot, is an annual herb or vine (parasitic) that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Cuscuta californica is also classified by the California Department of Food and Agriculture as a Noxious Weed List C: Control required in nurseries, not required elsewhere. [CDFA Weeds 2010]

Communities:	Yellow Pine Forest, Red Fir Forest, Lodgepole Forest, Subalpine Forest, Foothill Woodland, Chaparral, Valley Grassland, (many plant communities)
Elevation:	between 0 and 8202 feet
Family:	CONVOLVULACEAE (PLANTS: CUSCUTACEAE)
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Cuscuta found in California.
	This is a parent record; distribution data is an aggregate of data for subspecies and varieties: Cuscuta californica var. apiculata Cuscuta californica var. californica Cuscuta californica var. papillosa

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Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 10 / 1 CCH Alpine: 2 / 2 CCH Amador: 3 / 2 CCH Butte: 52 / 48 CCH Calaveras: 8 / 7 CCH Contra Costa: 11 / 6 CCH Colusa: 8 / 7 CCH Del Norte: 2 / 2 CCH El Dorado: 18 / 13 CCH Fresno: 15 / 14 CCH Glenn: 12 / 11 CCH Humboldt: 26 / 24 CCH Imperial: 1 / 1 CCH Inyo: 17 / 14 CCH Kern: 34 / 28 CCH Lake: 10 / 8 CCH Lassen: 1 / 1 CCH Los Angeles: 208 / 161 CCH Madera: 5 / 4 CCH Mendocino: 17 / 14 CCH Merced: 7 / 7 CCH Mono: 6 / 5 CCH Monterey: 65 / 41 CCH Mariposa: 11 / 9 CCH Marin: 25 / 19 CCH Napa: 10 / 7 CCH Nevada: 16 / 9 CCH Orange: 37 / 26 CCH Placer: 14 / 10 CCH Plumas: 56 / 52 CCH Riverside: 75 / 64 CCH Santa Barbara: 43 / 35 CCH San Bernardino: 110 / 103 CCH San Benito: 12 / 6 CCH Santa Clara: 10 / 9 CCH Santa Cruz: 9 / 7 CCH San Diego: 214 / 191 CCH San Francisco: 7 / 2 CCH Shasta: 11 / 9 CCH Sierra: 13 / 12 CCH Siskiyou: 14 / 14 CCH San Joaquin: 6 / 6 CCH San Luis Obispo: 32 / 28 CCH San Mateo: 6 / 2 CCH Solano: 8 / 7 CCH Sonoma: 6 / 1 CCH Stanislaus: 3 / 3 CCH Tehama: 26 / 26 CCH Trinity: 22 / 21 CCH Tulare: 33 / 25 CCH Tuolumne: 18 / 15 CCH Ventura: 56 / 37 CCH Yolo: 1 / 1 CCH Yuba: 1 / 0 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Cuscuta californica from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (CUCA)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database