Dodder

Found in:

• Landscape plantings, shrub borders, foundation plantings, and flower and vegetable gardens

Characteristics:

• Twining, stem climbing, parasitic annual vine
• Yellow to reddish-brown, thread-like stems
• Stems develop suckers that penetrate host plant
• Leaves are very small and scale-like or absent
• Small yellow to white flowers

Significance

• Federal Noxious Weed that spreads rapidly forming large mats
• Parasitic plant with no roots; lives on nutrients from host plant
• Seeds may remain dormant in soil for several years

Plants that look similar:

• Field Bindweed
• Wild Buckwheat
• Wild Cucumber

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