Taxon: Cuscuta campestris Yunck.

Common names:

• cipó-de-chumbo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• cipó-dourado   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• common dodder   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 )
  
• cuscuta   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• dodder   (Source: Virus Diseases )
  
• field dodder   (Source: Names Beetle )
  
• gewone dodder   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 )
  
• prairie dodder   (Source: F WVa )
  
• yellow dodder   (Source: BSBI )
  

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases; crop pests   (fide Virus Diseases)
  
• Weed: parasite; also potential seed contaminant   (fide Noxweed Aust; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Bahamas; Cuba; Guadeloupe; Jamaica; Martinique

Other:

• widely naturalized

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java. (F Java)
• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31. (Names Beetle)
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
• Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist. (L Kentucky)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
• Compton, R. H. 1976. The flora of Swaziland. (F Swazi)
• Converse, R. H., ed. 1987. Virus diseases of small fruits. USDA Agriculture Handbook 631. (Virus Diseases)
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. (F Bahamas)
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex)
• Costea, M. et al. 2006. Taxonomy of the Cuscuta pentagona complex (Convolvulaceae) in North America. Sida 22:163–165.
• Costea, M. Digital atlas of Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae) - on-line resource. (Atlas Cuscuta)
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F) [= C. pentagona var. calycina Engelm.].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Fosberg, F. R. et al. 1979–1982. Geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae/ Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae. (L Micrones)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
• Henderson, M. et al. 1987. Declared weeds and alien invader plants in South Africa. Botanical Research Institute, bulletin 413. (Weeds SAfr)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. (F TamilC)
• Mitchell, R. S., ed. 1986. A checklist of New York state plants. New York State Mus. Bull. 458. (L New York)
• Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora. (F CalifMunz)
• Munz, P. A. 1974. A flora of southern California. (F SCalif)
• Musselman, L. J. 1986. Castanea 51:194.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
• Ross, J. 1972. The flora of Natal. (F Natal)
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert. (F SonorDes)
• Spellman, D. L. et al. A list of the monocotyledoneae/dicotyledonae of Belize. Published in Rhodora v. 77 & 83, 1975 & 1981 (L Belize)
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
• Steyermark, J. A. & O. Huber. 1978. Flora del Avila. (F Avila)
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. (F VenGuay)
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2. (F WVa)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. (F Mich)
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania. (Atlas Penn)
• Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California. (F Baja)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
• Yunckerm T. G. 1965. Cuscuta. In: Britton, N. L. et al., eds. ser. 1; C. T. Rogerson, ed. ser. 2, North American flora ser. 1, 1905-1957; ser. 2, 1954-1972 (N Amer fl) ser. 2, 4:5.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cuscuta campestris.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cuscuta campestris. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Cuscuta campestris Yunck.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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