Orobanche cooperi
 Orobanche cooperi is a species of broomrape known by the common name Cooper's broomrape desert broomrape spike broomrape and burroweed strangler.[citation needed] It is native to the desert regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico where it is a parasite growing attached to the roots of other plants usually members of the Asteraceae such as Artemisia Hymenoclea Ambrosia and Encelia.