Calflora: Cuscuta pentagona

Cuscuta pentagona Engelm.

five angled dodder, fiveangled dodder, western field dodder

Cuscuta pentagona, 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 pentagona 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 1640 feet
Family:	CONVOLVULACEAE (PLANTS: CUSCUTACEAE)
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Cuscuta found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by PLANTS + JM93

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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.
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	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: 1 / 0 CCH Butte: 20 / 18 CCH Contra Costa: 1 / 0 CCH El Dorado: 1 / 0 CCH Fresno: 2 / 2 CCH Glenn: 1 / 1 CCH Humboldt: 1 / 1 CCH Imperial: 8 / 8 CCH Kern: 5 / 4 CCH Lake: 1 / 1 CCH Los Angeles: 16 / 14 CCH Madera: 1 / 1 CCH Mendocino: 2 / 1 CCH Merced: 3 / 3 CCH Monterey: 1 / 1 CCH Napa: 1 / 0 CCH Orange: 2 / 2 CCH Placer: 2 / 2 CCH Plumas: 1 / 1 CCH Riverside: 9 / 9 CCH Sacramento: 8 / 5 CCH Santa Barbara: 1 / 0 CCH San Bernardino: 8 / 8 CCH Santa Clara: 3 / 3 CCH Santa Cruz: 1 / 0 CCH San Diego: 2 / 1 CCH Shasta: 1 / 0 CCH San Joaquin: 3 / 3 CCH San Luis Obispo: 1 / 1 CCH San Mateo: 1 / 1 CCH Solano: 2 / 2 CCH Sonoma: 8 / 6 CCH Stanislaus: 6 / 5 CCH Tehama: 1 / 1 CCH Tulare: 1 / 1 CCH Ventura: 1 / 0 CCH Yolo: 6 / 6 CCH Yuba: 6 / 6 CCH

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

Information about Cuscuta pentagona from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (CUPE3)
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)
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