Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Cucurbitales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echinocystis lobata
FAMILY
Cucurbitaceae
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Read more about Wild Cucumber at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinocystis lobata
FAMILY
Cucurbitaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Echinocystis lobata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Echinocystis lobata
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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_milo4_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echinocystis lobata
FAMILY
Cucurbitaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinocystis lobata
FAMILY
Cucurbitaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Echinocystis lobata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Echinocystis lobata
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
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Climbing herbaceous vine
Annual
Monoecious
Habitat: Bottomland forests and thickets, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina
Rare
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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Fruit covered with soft prickles
LEAVES:
Simple - palmately lobed
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White to cream
6-lobed calyx
6-lobed rotate corolla
Inferior ovary
Unisexual
Flowers axillary, pistillate solitary, staminate in long narrow panicles
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p167
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p101
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p168
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