Please ID this vine (or___?)

While mowing the field yesterday, I spotted some type of vine (?) growing over the obnoxious plant that i'm trying to get rid of before it seeds or flowers (i forgot what the obnoxious plant is called).
I've never seen anything like this. What is it??  It's in southern Missouri, between Black and Current Rivers
Any help in identifying wll be appreciated.
Thanks!!

The obnoxious plant is lespedeza - a fantastic, parasite-busting fodder for cows, goats and sheep. Possibly for horses, llamas, and alpacas. No idea what the obnoxious vine is, that's growing over it, though.

It looks like dodder to me....(the orange plant growing on the lespedeza)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta

  Cuscuta (/kʌsˈkjuːtə/), commonly known as dodder or amarbel, is a genus of over 201 species of yellow, orange, or red (rarely green) parasitic plants. The genus possess minimal chlorophyll and utilize haustoria to extract nutrient and water from host's vascular system.[1] Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it now is accepted as belonging in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae, on the basis of the work of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.[2]

We have just pulled it off of stuff and let it dry out...you probably don't want it 🫤

Thank you for ID'ing the other.
Do deer eat lespedeza?? It has really taken over the field, and I've noticed fewer deer lately. I was thinking that the deer have gone to where grass is easier to find.

Judith Browning wrote:It looks like dodder to me....(the orange plant growing on the lespedeza)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta

  Cuscuta (/kʌsˈkjuːtə/), commonly known as dodder or amarbel, is a genus of over 201 species of yellow, orange, or red (rarely green) parasitic plants. The genus possess minimal chlorophyll and utilize haustoria to extract nutrient and water from host's vascular system.[1] Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it now is accepted as belonging in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae, on the basis of the work of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.[2]

We have just pulled it off of stuff and let it dry out...you probably don't want it 🫤

Thank you!!!

M.J. Wayne wrote:Thank you for ID'ing the other.
Do deer eat lespedeza?? It has really taken over the field, and I've noticed fewer deer lately. I was thinking that the deer have gone to where grass is easier to find.

I kinda don't think deer do, because we have a bunch of deer - and they seem to ignore it.

Judith Browning wrote:It looks like dodder to me....(the orange plant growing on the lespedeza)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta

Oh man that stuff is a major problem where I live, it gets into tropical forest areas and literally pulls trees down.

Carla Burke wrote:

M.J. Wayne wrote:Thank you for ID'ing the other.
Do deer eat lespedeza?? It has really taken over the field, and I've noticed fewer deer lately. I was thinking that the deer have gone to where grass is easier to find.

I kinda don't think deer do, because we have a bunch of deer - and they seem to ignore it.

Deer are really thin now. Only ones I see on a regular basis are a doe and its fawn. I have a picture taken in April (i think) that shows a dozen deer in the same field. I've seen few since then.

Tereza Okava wrote:

Judith Browning wrote:It looks like dodder to me....(the orange plant growing on the lespedeza)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta

Oh man that stuff is a major problem where I live, it gets into tropical forest areas and literally pulls trees down.

Thank you for the warning. I'll keep an eye on it

I secoond dodder. Bad stuff. I pulled some after returning from vacation once. I just dried it out on a tarp, drowned what may not have been seeds for a couple weeks, dried it out again, and sent it to the dump.That was ten years ago? Haven't seen it since.

I agree with the ID of bush clover Sericea lespedeza and its parasitic dodder. Lespedeza has very high tannin so some animals will eat it to get rid parasites in the guts. Otherwise, they don't like the bitterness from tannin, especially older plants. Younger leaves early in the season are more palatable to herbivores. It was introduced to control erosion and provide fodder early last century and has became invasive in many places.

Thank you for your input, May...

Now I'm going to ask what this tall flowering plant is....

Maybe mare's tale? Check here.

Joylynn Hardesty wrote:Maybe mare's tale? Check here.

That looks like it. Thanks.
I appreciate everyone's help.

The tall one is horseweed.
https://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/weeds/plants/horseweed.html

Latin name, Conyza canadensis. Another case of the same plant, different common name.

If you can be bothered . . . dodder is an excellent subject for natural fibre basketry or weaving sculptural forms.