growing wild in dry sandy soil...kinda like a tumbleweed with one central root stem that easily detaches.....multiple seedheads........purple now, looks like it may have been green previously. I didn't notice it until the dark purple fall color.......the ID forum thinks it's doddder, but it looks nothing at all like the pictures for dodder in the plantfiles
Jackie, I am sorry but I have looked and have no idea. It sure is an interesting plant.
Josephine.
the plant is covered in seed which easily shake loose...
yes, I think my hubby must have brought it in in some soil from cleaning stables
I have checked several sources it is definitely not dodder
Interesting though.
Jackie, was the plant allways that color? or did it have green leaves with pink stems at some point?
I am thinking that if that was the case, it might be some type of Euphorbia that has lost its leaves.
What do you think?
I never even noticed it til it turned purple....... pictured a patch of it in the field
wow... it might not look like much when green but the purple is awesome.
I found it!!!! winged pigweed, purple tumbleweed.........cycloloma species
well cooolllll
http://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/plants/album/cycloloma.html
ohhh ohh more info
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/plants/floramw/species/cyclatri.htm
