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. Small and
white flowers 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. |