These flowers have 5 fused petals with lance-like shapes and pointed tips, spreading out like stars and curving slightly backward.

Inside the floral tube is an ovary with two elongated styles, each with a round stigma at the tip and a small swelling at the base called a stylopodium.

They grow in tangled, wiry masses that wrap around and rely on the host plant for support.

[2] The fruit of Cuscuta glomerata is a round, flattened capsule, measuring about 1/8 inch in diameter.

[2] Cuscuta glomerata is native to the central United States and can be found in the following states: Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.