Limber Pine Dwarf-Mistletoe

Arceuthobium cyanocarpum, commonly known as limber pine dwarf mistletoe, is a species of parasitic plant in the sandalwood family, Santalaceae, sometimes instead placed in the viscaceous mistletoe family, Viscaceae. It is native to the western United States, where it grows at high elevations in the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin and, less commonly, in Oregon and California. There, it grows on and parasitizes conifers, primarily the limber pine (Pinus flexilis), whitebark pine (P. albicaulis), Rocky Mountain...