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§1 Plant

Cuscuta compacta Juss. ex Choisy var. compacta

vernacular compact dodder — variety · Cuscutaceae


USDA
CUCOC
GBIF
7976127
Rank
variety
compact dodder (Cuscuta compacta var. compacta)
Platephotograph · sbrockwayCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 355 counties across 27 states/territories
Legend Native · 355 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 355 counties across 27 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 27 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 23 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 4 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 42 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 41 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CUCOC ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/7976127 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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