Cuscuta umbellata var. umbellata

Native to:

Arizona, Bahamas, Colombia, Colorado, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kansas, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela

Introduced into:

Cape Verde

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Carranza, E. (2015). Flora del Valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán 135: 1-128. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
• Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2023). Flora of North America North of Mexico 14: 1-505. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Austin, D.F. (1980). Studies of the Florida Convolvulaceae -- III. Cuscuta. Florida Scientist 43: 294-302.
• Austin, D.F. in Correll, D.S. & Correll, H.B. (1982). Convolvulaceae. Flora of the Bahama Archipelago: 1161-1190. J.Cramer, Vaduz.
• Austin, D.F. in Lasser, T. (1982). Convolvulaceae. Flora de Venezuela 8(3): 15-226. Fundación Educación Ambiental.
• Carranza, E. (2008). Convolvulaceae II. Flora del Bajío y de regiones adyacentes 155: 1-107.
• Costea, M. & S. Stefanovic (2010). Evolutionary history and taxonomy of the Cuscuta umbellata complex (Convolvulaceae): evidence of past hybirdization from discordant nuclear and plastid phylogenies. Taxon 59: 1783-1800.
• Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2023). Flora of North America North of Mexico 14: 1-505. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
• Hill, A.W. & Sandwith, N. in Williams, R.O. (1953). Fl. Trinidad & Tobago Convolvs.. Flora of Trinidad and Tobago 2(4): 210-240. Government Printing Office, Port-of-Spain.
• Liogier, A.H. in Liogier, A. H. (1994). Convolvulaceae. La flora de la Española 6: 49-114. Universidad Central del Este.