Orobanche uniflora

Family: Orobanchaceae
Common Name: oneflowered broomrape
Symbol: ORUN
Description: Parasitic herb 20 cm tall Stem: 1 - 3 cm long, mostly or completely underground. Leaves: few, overlapping, scale-like, oblong to egg-shaped with a blunt or sharp pointed tip, hairless. Flowers: borne solitary at the end of an erect stalk (the above ground part of the plant), the one to three cream-colored stalks are 6 - 20 cm long and covered with glandular hairs. The sepals are fused into a tube with lance to awl-shaped lobes that are longer than the tube, and the white, cream, lilac, or violet petals are 2 cm long, tubular, and two-lipped. Fruit: an egg-shaped capsule, 6 - 12 cm long, 5 - 8 mm wide, usually with wilted petals remaining. SEINet Portal Network. 2020. http//:swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php. Accessed on November 02.