Dodder on Alfalfa  

A dodder infestation as severe as shown will drastically reduce forage yield and contaminate seed harvested from this field.  Dodder is a parasitic plant that attaches itself to alfalfa and many other plants.  Its stems wrap around alfalfa stems, send haustoria into stems and feeds on the nutrients in the alfalfa plant because dodder has no chlorophyll.   

 

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