Cuscuta salina

It is a parasitic, leafless vine native to western North America that grows in saline habitats like salt marshes and vernal pools. It wraps its orange or yellowish stems around host plants, using specialized structures called haustoria to steal nutrients and water. The leaves are rudimentary and scale-like, virtually non-existent, as the plant has lost all ability to do photosynthesis due to no green leaves and no green stems. Salt Marsh Dodder flowers are white glandular corollas. Each flower is bell-shaped with five pointed triangular lobes, after pollination by many kinds of native bees and native butterflies, develop fruits that sweet and edible to small native mammals and native birds, including the Belding's Savannah Sparrow.