Cuscuta campestris




Family Convolvulaceae
Tribe Cuscuteae
Scientific name Cuscuta campestris Yuncker
Synonyms Cuscuta arvensis Beyrich ex Engelmann; Cuscuta arvensis Beyrich ex Engelmann var. calycina (Engelmann) Engelmann; Cuscuta arvensis Beyrich ex Engelmann var. pentagona (Engelmann) Engelmann; Cuscuta basabarica Buia; Cuscuta gymnocarpa Engelmann subsp. deflexa Buia; Cuscuta pentagona Engelmann; Cuscuta pentagona Engelmann var. calycina Engelmann; Cuscuta pentagona Engelmann var. microcalyx Engelmann; Cuscuta pentagona Engelmann var. pubescens (Engelmann) Yuncker; Cuscuta pentagona Engelmann var. subulata Yuncker; Cuscuta pentagona Engelmann var. typica Yuncker; Epithymum arvense (Beyrich ex Engelmann) Nieuwland & Lunell; Grammica campestris (Yuncker) Hadač & Chrtek; Grammica pentagona (Engelmann) W. A. Weber
Common name (Japanese common name) amerika nenashi-kazura (アメリカネナシカズラ, 亜米利加根無葛 [meaning: American rootless vine])
(English common name) bush-clover dodder, field dodder, fiveangle dodder
Distribution (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa
(Other nations) [native] Canada, USA, Mexico
Habitat Field, riverside
Chromosomal number 2n=56
Description Flowers white corollas ca. 3mm across, flowering in July to October. Vine. Annual plants.
Reference Cuscuta campestris Yuncker
Cuscuta pentagona Engelm.
Cuscuta pentagona Engelm.
Cuscuta pentagona Engelm.
4-Tert-butyl-N-sec-butyl-2,6-dinitroaniline (US Patent 3991116/1976)
Biological control of dodder (US Patent 4915726/1990)
Apparatus and method for determining a distance to an object in a field for the controlled release of chemicals on plants, weeds, trees or soil and/or guidance of farm vehicles (US Patent 5585626/1996)
Apparatus and method for spraying herbicide on weeds in a cotton field (US Patent 5793035/1998)
Bulk decontamination and degermination of materials in a sub-atmospheric saturated steam environment (US Patent 6800246/2004)
Traditional chinese pharmaceutical formulation for treatment of paradentosis, process for preparation and use thereof (US Patent 7179492/2007)
Note Naturalized plants (first reported in 1975)



July 2008
at riverside
July 2008
at riverside
October 2007
at open field



October 2007
at open field
October 2007
at open field
July 2008
at riverside