Penny Graves

-Cuscuta is a persistent, aggressive parasite. Eliminating it requires early detection, complete removal, and preventing the spread of seeds. Once established, it’s almost impossible to eliminate them completely without harming the host.

-They are often known as lesser dodder or hellweed.

-I also asked ChatGPT for fun what these flowers could represent with NO correlation to Ashley whatsoever

-AND THE DESCRIPTION IS LITERALLY HERRRR:

-In poetry or art, Cuscuta’s pink flowers could often symbolise a sweet-looking parasite, "a burden disguised as beauty", or a pretty/elegant sort of destruction

They work powerfully and PERFECTLY with metaphors for codependency, loss of identity, or even the hidden costs of growth through someone else...

IN CONCLUSION:

IT'S LITERALLY ASHLEY'S FLOWERS AND NO ONE CAN CHANGE MY MIND RAAHHHHH