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Desert Broomrape

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Close-up of the desert broomrape, showing off the beautiful and unusual hairy flowers. Because it doesn't use chlorophyll like most all plants to convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into food, it doesn't need to be green. Instead, this oddly beautiful parasitic plant steals nutrients from neighboring plants and has a rather fond taste for asters, such as the sunflowers are common in the desert. This one was found growing in Western Texas near the Rio Grande River.

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©2015
Image Size
2266x3399 / 5.0MB
Keywords
Angiosperms, Aphyllon cooperi, Asterids, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Chihuahuan Desert, Cooper's broom rape, Cooper's broomrape, Eudicots, Lamiales, Myzorrhiza cooperi, O. cooperi, Orobanchaceae, Orobanche, Orobanche cooperi, Orobanche cooperi ssp. cooperi, Orobanche cooperi ssp. latiloba, Orobanche ludoviciana var. cooperi, Orobanche ludoviciana var. latiloba, Texas, annual, beautiful, beauty, broom rape, broom-rape, broomrape, burroweed strangler, desert, desert broomrape, dicot, environment, flor de tierra, flora, forb, herb, herbaceous, myco-heterotrophs, mycotroph, mycotrophic, natural, nature, oddball, parasitic, plant, purple, saprophyte, sert broomrape, southwest, spike broomrape, spring, wild, wilderness, wildflower
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Orobanchaceae (Indian Paintbrushes and Broomrapes)
Close-up of the desert broomrape, showing off the beautiful and unusual hairy flowers. Because it doesn't use chlorophyll like most all plants to convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into food, it doesn't need to be green. Instead, this oddly beautiful parasitic plant steals nutrients from neighboring plants and has a rather fond taste for asters, such as the sunflowers are common in the desert. This one was found growing in Western Texas near the Rio Grande River.