Cuscuta denticulata, commonly known as desert dodder[2] or small-toothed dodder, is a thin, yellow to orange, parasitic annual vine in the morning glory family (Convulvulaceae), native to the deserts of the south-western United States and northern Mexico.

[3] It is an annual plant that grows as a very thin orange-ish parasitic vine, with clumping twinings around the host stems.

[3] It parasitizes the host by sending small, short-lived rootlets (haustoria) into its tissues, from which it absorbs moisture and nutrients.

[3] Yellow to orange stems are without hairs, with minute scale-like leaves.

[3] It blooms from May to October with tiny spikes of clusters of miniature white, 5-parted bell shaped flowers.