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Photo metadata:
Original identification: Cuscuta cephalanthi
Current identification: Cuscuta cephalanthi
Photographer: Peter Zika
Date Photographed: October 17, 2016
Location: U.S.A., Ohio, Fairfield County: Sunny openings on the shoreline, E shore of Griggs Reservoir on the Scioto River, occasional from Nottingham Launch Ramp to Fishinger Road bridge, Columbus, Riley's station, Ohio.
Elevation: [not provided]
Coordinates: 40.02945° N, 83.09307° W
Phenology: Flowers
Comments: Stems orange to pale green, flowers white, 3-4 blunt petals, ascending at anthesis, flat at tip (not inflexed), anthers yellow; parasite mostly on Justicia americana, also Cornus, Symphyotrichum
Voucher Specimen: Peter Zika 28589, WTU Herbarium
