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Your search found 10 taxa in the family Cucurbitaceae, Gourd family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
Look for it in gardens, fields, trash heaps; commonly cultivated in home gardens and commercially, sometimes volunteering from seed the following year
Non-native: tropical America
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Common Name:
Crookneck Squash, Straightneck Squash, Acorn Squash, Spaghetti Squash
Look for it in gardens, fields, trash heaps; commonly cultivated in home gardens and commercially, rarely volunteering from seed the following year
Non-native: tropical America
Look for it in gardens, fields, trash heaps, commonly cultivated in home gardens and commercially, sometimes volunteering from seed the following year
Waif(s)
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name:
Cucumber
Look for it in gardens, fields, trash heaps, commonly cultivated in home gardens and commercially, sometimes volunteering from seed the following year
Non-native: south Asia
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Common Name:
Watermelon
Look for it in gardens, fields, trash heaps, commonly cultivated in home gardens and commercially, sometimes volunteering from seed the following year
Waif(s)
Non-native: northern Africa
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Common Name:
Five-lobed Cucumber, Melon-leaf Cucumber
Look for it in swamp forests, river banks
Rare in GA & SC
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Creeping Cucumber
Look for it in bottomland forests, moist roadsides & disturbed areas, marshes
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bur Cucumber, Star Cucumber, Nimble-Kate
Look for it in moist forests and thickets
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in bottomland forests and thickets
Rare south of WV
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Balsam-pear, Balsam-apple, Bitter Melon
Look for it in disturbed areas, roadsides, fence-rows
Rare
Non-native: Africa
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