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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Striga asiatica   FAMILY Orobanchaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Striga asiatica   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Striga asiatica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)

Striga asiatica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-22-001:

Striga lutea   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
Asiatic Witchweed


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image of Striga asiatica, Asiatic Witchweed

USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970    swus_page_331

        

image of Striga asiatica, Asiatic Witchweed

Julia Scher, Federal Noxious Weeds Disseminules, USDA APHIS ITP, Bugwood.org    bug_5376868

Month Unknown        

image of Striga asiatica, Asiatic Witchweed

Florida Division of Plant Industry Archive, Bugwood.org    bug_5384180

Month Unknown        

Stems erect, rarely branched. Corolla tube apically strongly curved, per Flora of China.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Striga asiatica   FAMILY Orobanchaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Striga asiatica   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Striga asiatica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
Striga asiatica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-22-001:
Striga lutea   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

 

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2936

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Cultivated fields, parasitic on the roots of corn and other grasses, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Old World

Rare

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INVASIVE

This plant is causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

 

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite or subopposite

FLOWER:
Summer
Red
2-lipped corolla
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)

Flowers in leaf axils, solitary or in a spike upward

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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