Convolvulaceae
Clover dodder
Cuscuta epithymum
- Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Genus
- Cuscuta
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Common names
By language (30)
- Arabic
- حامول صعتري, أفتيمون, حامول السعتر, حرير الزعتر, حماض الأرنب, شكوثا, صعيترة, كشوث
- Armenian
- Գաղձ սովորական
- arz
- حامول صعترى
- Basque
- Kuskula
- Belarusian
- Павітуха чаборавая
- Catalan
- Cabellets de farigola
- Chinese
- 百里香菟丝子
- Czech
- Kokotice povázka
- Dutch
- Klein warkruid, Duivelsnaaigaren
- English
- Clover dodder, Common dodder, Dodder
- Estonian
- Liivatee-võrm
- Finnish
- Nurmivieras, Apilanvieras
- French
- Cuscute du thym, Petite cuscute
- Galician
- Barbas de raposo, Liño de raposo
- German
- Quendel-Seide, Quendelseide, Klee-Seide
- kw
- Safron an Jowl
- Latvian
- Mārsila vija
- Lithuanian
- Smulkusis brantas
- Macedonian
- Вилина косица
- nds
- Klein duvelsneigaoren
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Timiansnyltetråd
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Timiansnikjetråd
- Persian
- سس شبدری
- Polish
- Kanianka macierzankowa
- Portuguese
- Cabelos
- Russian
- Повилика тимьяновая
- Slovak
- Kukučina dúšková
- Spanish
- Epítimo, Azafran borde, Azafrán borde, Barba de raposo, Barbas de capuchino, Barbas de cuco, Barbas de hisopo, Cabellos de Nuestro Senor
- Swedish
- Ljungsnärja
- Welsh
- Llindag
Synonyms
- Cuscuta europaea var. epithymum L.
- Lepimenes epithymum Raf.
Flowers
- In flower
- January, April to August (from 250 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Vine
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: ponpon42, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Tomas Pocius, CC0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Lennart Hudel, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Retama, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Bobo-X, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: J.F. Gaffard Jeffdelonge at fr.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Gilles San Martin, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Mirko Ubović, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Bernd Haynold, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.