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|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Cuscuta;Cuscuta subg. Cuscuta;Cuscuta approximata;Cuscuta approximata var. approximata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Convolvulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cuscuta]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Cuscuta subg. Cuscuta]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cuscuta approximata]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Cuscuta approximata var. approximata]]</div></div>
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>usually yellow, rarely reddish purple, medium. <b>Inflo</b>rescences: bracts elliptic to ovate, membranous, margins entire, apex acute. <b>Pedicels</b> absent. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, 3–4.2 mm, fleshy; papillae absent; calyx golden yellow, campanulate, ± equaling corolla tube length, divided 1/3–1/2 its length, cellular-reticulate, shiny, lobes broadly triangular to obovate, each with a distal fleshy appendage, bases overlapping, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate; corolla white, drying creamy yellow, campanulate, globose or urceolate in fruit, 2.5–4 mm, not saccate, tube 1.5–2 mm, lobes spreading, ovate-orbiculate, shorter than to equaling corolla tube length, margins entire, apex obtuse, straight; infrastaminal scales oblong to ovate, 1.4–1.8 mm, shorter than to equaling corolla tube length, bridged at 0.3–0.5 mm, base truncate to rounded, fimbriate in distal 1/2, fimbriae 0.1–0.2 mm; stamens exserted, shorter than corolla lobes; filaments 0.3–0.6 mm; anthers 0.3–0.6 × 0.3–0.4 mm; styles slightly subulate; style plus stigmas 0.8–1.6 mm, equaling or longer than ovary; stigmas cylindric to terete, 0.4–0.7 mm, shorter than to as long as styles. <b>Capsules</b> depressed-globose, 1.5–2.3 × 1.6–2 mm, not thickened or raised around interstylar aperture, translucent, capped by withered corolla. <b>Seeds</b> 3 or 4, angled, ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, 0.8–1.1 × 0.6–0.7 mm, hilum region terminal. <b>2n</b> = 14, 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Sep.
|habitat=Hosts: primarily Medicago sativa and Trifolium, sometimes other herbs.
|elevation=200–2500 m.
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Europe;w Asia;n Africa.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Cuscuta approximata is distinguished from C. epithymum by glomerules usually with more numerous flowers, calyx golden yellow, reticulate, and shiny, and calyx lobes each with a distal fleshy appendage.</p>
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name=Cuscuta approximata var. approximata
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|family=Convolvulaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Sep.
|habitat=Hosts: primarily Medicago sativa and Trifolium, sometimes other herbs.
|elevation=200–2500 m.
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Europe;w Asia;n Africa.
|introduced=true
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|special status=Weedy;Introduced
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|genus=Cuscuta
|subgenus=Cuscuta subg. Cuscuta
|species=Cuscuta approximata
|variety=Cuscuta approximata var. approximata
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