Common names:

• large-seed dodder  (Source: AH 505) - English
• cipó-de-chumbo  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• espaguete  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• fios-de-ovos  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• tinge-ovos  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic Importance:

• Weed: parasite ()
• Weed: potential seed contaminant ()

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Saskatchewan]
• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Michigan, New Jersey, West Virginia]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota]
• NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Florida (http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/main.asp?plantID=759), Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Puebla, Queretaro, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Barbados, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela [Bolivar]
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Paraguay [Guaira]


Naturalized

Southern America

• BRAZIL: Brazil [Parana]
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Paraguay [Alto Paraguay]

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Images:

• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image