America’s Wildflowers, On the Road in a Truck Camper Pt 2

Tiger4x4RV wrote:
The orange stuff is dodder, a parasitic plant. It can eventually kill the host plant.

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7496.html

Thanks never knew the scientific name. I have always known it as witches hair and starts growing in the spring here in so cal. It is edible and I always take a bite of it when I come across it :) slightly bitter but not too bad.