Cuscuta salina - Cuscuta salina is a species of dodder known by the common name salt marsh dodder. It is native to western North America where it lives in seasonal alkaline or saline habitats such as vernal pools and salt flats. It is a parasitic plant wrapping itself around wetland vegetation and tapping them for nutrients with its haustoria. This is a slender annual vine extending yellowish thready stems to wrap tightly around other plants. The leaves are rudimentary and scale-like. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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Plant