NameThatPlant.net: Echinocystis lobata

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Cucurbitales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Echinocystis lobata FAMILY Cucurbitaceae NEW! Click to go to FSUS key

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SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinocystis lobata FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 177-08-001:
Echinocystis lobata FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Micrampelis lobata

COMMON NAME:
Wild Cucumber, Wild Balsam-apple

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image of Echinocystis lobata, Wild Cucumber, Wild Balsam-apple

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_milo4_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Echinocystis lobata FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinocystis lobata FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 177-08-001:
Echinocystis lobata FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Micrampelis lobata

3367

Climbing herbaceous vine
Annual
Monoecious

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Habitat: Bottomland forests and thickets, per Weakley's Flora

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Fruit covered with soft prickles

LEAVES:
Simple - palmately lobed
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White to cream
Unisexual
6-lobed calyx
6-lobed rotate corolla
Inferior ovary

Flowers axillary, pistillate solitary, staminate in long narrow panicles

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Berry

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