Cuscuta salina
About
Cuscuta salina is a species of dodder known by the English name salt marsh dodder and is a native plant of western North America. The habitat includes coastal tidal wetlands in California, as well as saline habitats away from the coast, such as vernal pools and salt flats. Salt Marsh Dodder is a parasitic plant, wrapping orange-colored stems around natural wetland vegetation and absorbing nutrients of host plants via their specialized structures called haustoria.
- Family
- Convolvulaceae
How to use it
Salt marsh dodder is primarily known for its role in ecosystems as a parasitic plant. It can help maintain the balance of plant life in saline habitats by interacting with various host plants, although it does not have direct medicinal or ornamental uses.
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Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Cuscuta salina
- Slug
- cuscuta-salina
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Genus
- Cuscuta
- Species
- salina
- Wikidata QID
- Q5196160
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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