Irish wildflowers
Photographs: the Burren, Co. Clare |
Dodder Cuscuta epithymum Clamhán Family: Convolvulaceae Flowering time: June-October. Parasitic annual. Native. Dense clusters of very small pinkish-white flowers, 5-petalled with the stamens projecting. The plant is a mass of twining red stems, the leaves reduced to tiny scales. As no green chlorophyll is produced it is parasitic on heather, gorse, birds-foot-trefoil and clovers. A variant with yellow stems and white flowers sometimes occurs, photograph below. Very sparse coastal distribution on host-plants on heaths, grassland and dunes. Declining. |
Dodder, Cuscuta epithymum, Clamhán
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