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Orobanche fasciculata is a species of broomrape known by the common name clustered broomrape. It is native to much of western and central North America from Alaska to northern Mexico to the Great Lakes region, where it grows in many types of habitat. It is a parasite growing attached to the roots of other plants, usually members of the Asteraceae, such as Artemisia, Eriodictyon, and Eriogonum. This plant produces one or more stems from a thick root, growing erect to about 20 centimeters in maximum height. As a parasite taking its nutrients from a host plant, it lacks leaves and chlorophyll. It is variable in color, often yellowish or purple. The flower cluster is a raceme of up to 20 flowers, each on a pedicel up to 15 centimeters long. Each flower has a calyx of hairy triangular sepals and a tubular corolla 1.5 to 3 centimeters long. The flower is yellowish or purplish in color.
Perennial herb
8 in Tall
Yellow, Purple
Full Sun, Partial Shade
Dry open places
Lodgepole Forest, Pinyon-Juniper Woodland, Red Fir Forest, Sagebrush Scrub, Subalpine Forest, Yellow Pine Forest
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 1 likely
Variable Checkerspot
Euphydryas chalcedona