Calflora: Cuscuta indecora

Cuscuta indecora Choisy

big seed alfalfa dodder, bigseed alfalfa dodder

Cuscuta indecora, a dicot, is an annual herb or vine (parasitic) that is native to California and is also found elsewhere in North America and beyond.

Cuscuta indecora 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]

Community:
Elevation:	between 0 and 4921 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 indecora var. indecora

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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: 3 / 1 CCH Butte: 12 / 11 CCH Colusa: 2 / 2 CCH Fresno: 3 / 3 CCH Humboldt: 1 / 1 CCH Imperial: 2 / 2 CCH Inyo: 19 / 17 CCH Kern: 5 / 5 CCH Lake: 8 / 8 CCH Los Angeles: 13 / 11 CCH Madera: 1 / 1 CCH Modoc: 3 / 3 CCH Napa: 3 / 2 CCH Riverside: 4 / 4 CCH Sacramento: 3 / 2 CCH Santa Barbara: 1 / 0 CCH San Bernardino: 36 / 36 CCH San Benito: 1 / 0 CCH San Diego: 6 / 4 CCH Shasta: 2 / 2 CCH San Joaquin: 4 / 4 CCH Solano: 13 / 11 CCH Stanislaus: 4 / 4 CCH Sutter: 2 / 2 CCH Tehama: 1 / 1 CCH Trinity: 4 / 4 CCH Tulare: 1 / 1 CCH Ventura: 2 / 2 CCH Yolo: 7 / 6 CCH

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

Information about Cuscuta indecora from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (CUIN)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
UC Integrated Pest Management Weed Photo Gallery
(profile of this plant as an agricultural weed)
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