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Herbaceous vine (trailing); Forb
Annual
Monoecious

Non-native: northern Africa

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Waif(s)

Look for it in gardens, fields, trash heaps, commonly cultivated in home gardens and commercially, sometimes volunteering from seed the following year, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple: Pinnately lobed or dissected
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
Unisexual
5-6 lobed calyx
5-6 lobed campanulate corolla
Inferior ovary

Flowers solitary in leaf axils

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Berry

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Citrullus lanatus   FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus   FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Citrullus lanatus ssp. lanatus

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 177-04-001:
Citrullus vulgaris   FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Citrullus citrullus