Cuscuta megalocarpa
 
Bigfruit Dodder

Haustoria

Fen at Junction of Highways #47 and #247
20-August-2016

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Cuscuta: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus. 
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yellow or reddish parasitic plants; NOT [green plants]

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plants with a few very small scale-like leaves; NOT [leafy plants]

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flowers 1-5 mm wide, borne in clusters; NOT [plants with large flowers]

 

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Convolvulaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  leading to this family. 
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herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees]

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plants green or with some chlorophyll; NOT [plants parasitic or saprophytic, without chlorophyll]

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plants without milky juice

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twining plants

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flowers not in heads or spikes; NOT [flowers in long or short spikes], NOT [flowers in heads or in form resembling a head]

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flowers with two floral rings, but with the petals wholly or partly united forming a tube or bell

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corolla regular; NOT [corolla irregular]

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corolla funnelform

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corolla large

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ovary superior; NOT [ovary inferior]