• Cuscuta salina is a species of dodder known by the English name salt marsh dodder and is a native plant of western North America. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2009, two of them were combined into a separate species called Cuscuta pacifica. (wikipedia.org)
  • The two species can easily be differentiated by habitat geography: the varieties of Cuscuta pacifica grow solely in coastal habitats while Cuscuta salina sensu stricto grows inland in alkaline or saline seasonally wet habitats such as vernal pools and salt flats, such as the margins of the Great Salt Lake. (wikipedia.org)
  • A characteristic species found in deep emergent marshes is wild rice (Zizania aquatica and Z. palustris). (nynhp.org)
  • Several deep emergent marshes are threatened by invasive species, such as purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), water chestnut (Trapa natans), Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), reedgrass (Phragmites australis), and frog-bit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae). (nynhp.org)
  • The habitat includes coastal tidal wetlands in California, as well as saline habitats away from the coast, such as vernal pools and salt flats. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition to providing habitat and food for marsh fish and waterfowl, wild rice has been an important food staple for Native Americans for thousands of years. (nynhp.org)
  • There are 95 taxa reported for the Salt Marsh habitat. (regionalconservation.org)
  • Of concern is the spread of introduced species Cuscuta campestris (Golden Dodder). (vic.gov.au)
  • Salt Marsh Dodder is a parasitic plant, wrapping orange-colored stems around natural wetland vegetation and absorbing nutrients of host plants via their specialized structures called haustoria. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cuscuta salina is a slender annual vine extending yellowish thready stems to wrap tightly around other plants of the sunflower family, notably Jaumea carnosa in an ecological mutualistic relationship. (wikipedia.org)
  • The only way to know for certain whether the lake contains high soil salt concentrations is to perform soil tests. (vic.gov.au)