OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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   Go to FSUS key



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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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 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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3367

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

 

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