Cuscuta pentagona, an
originating-in-North America satellite, grows wild in wastelands,
seashores, or dry river beds, with slender, light yellow, or light
yellow-red vines. Flowers, small and white, bloom in clusters;
corollas measure 3mm in diameter, and stamens, 5 in number, project
out of the corollas. Female styles are two, and capsules are 2-3mm
in diameter and spherical. Bloom time July-October. |