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§1 Plant

Cuscuta pentagona Engelm.

vernacular fiveangled dodder — species · Cuscutaceae


USDA
CUPE3
GBIF
2927490
Rank
species
fiveangled dodder (Cuscuta pentagona)
Platephotograph · Bill Apostle StefanidisCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Vine
Duration
Annual, Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Cuscutaceae Dumort.
Genus
Cuscuta
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • NAV Navassa Island Native
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
§2b

County-level range

· 640 counties across 28 states/territories
Legend Native · 640 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 640 counties across 28 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 15 N
Arizona view state ↗ 5 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 43 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 39 N
Georgia view state ↗ 13 N
Illinois view state ↗ 36 N
Indiana view state ↗ 33 N
Iowa view state ↗ 5 N
Kansas view state ↗ 31 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 61 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 23 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 N
Michigan view state ↗ 3 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 17 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 7 N
Montana view state ↗ 1 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 N
New York view state ↗ 13 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 66 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 19 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 27 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 44 N
Virginia view state ↗ 89 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 20 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CUPE3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2927490 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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