{"id":3148,"date":"2015-05-15T21:21:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T01:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2015-05-31T17:20:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T21:20:24","slug":"15-may-2015-one-flowered-cancer-root-orobanche-uniflora-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/?p=3148","title":{"rendered":"15 May 2015 &#8211; One-flowered Cancer root &#8211; Orobanche uniflora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0628.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3149 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0628-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0628\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0628-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0628-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Earlier this week, on the Maryland Biodiversity Project pages I saw a couple of photos of <strong>One-flowered Cancer root<\/strong> (<em>Orobanche uniflora<\/em> L.) on the North Tract taken by Richard Orr. Wow, since I have not seen <strong>Cancer root<\/strong> on the North Tract, it had to be documented for the record.\u00a0 Well, this afternoon, Richard kindly showed me the location along the Patuxent River where he found them. (<em>You can see the photos I took on this page. Click on the thumbnails for a full-sized view.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>One-flowered Cancer root<\/strong> is holoparasitic and lacks chlorophyll; it is dependent on the host plant for nutrients. Its hosts includes members of the Asteraceae and the Saxifragaceae. It is found throughout the USA, except Hawaii, the southern tier of Canadian provinces.<\/p>\n<p>It is also called <strong>One-flowered Broomrape<\/strong>, <strong>Ghostpipe<\/strong>, and <strong>Naked Broomrape<\/strong>. Interestingly, although it is native to the USA, the Federal Government and nine states consider this to be a noxious weed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0632.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3152 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0632-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0632\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0632-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0632-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3151 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0631-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0631\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0631-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0631-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0629.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3150 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0629-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0629\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0629-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC0629-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, on the Maryland Biodiversity Project pages I saw a couple of photos of One-flowered Cancer root (Orobanche uniflora L.) on the North Tract taken by Richard Orr. Wow, since I have not seen Cancer root on the North Tract, it had to be documented for the record.\u00a0 Well, this afternoon, Richard kindly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal","category-plant-profile"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}