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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Cucumis sativus   FAMILY Cucurbitaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cucumis sativus   FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Cucumis sativus

INCLUDING Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)

Cucumis sativus var. sativus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Cucumis sativus

 

COMMON NAME:
Cucumber


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image of Cucumis sativus, Cucumber

JK Marlow    jkm200618_5935

June    Greenville County    SC

image of Cucumis sativus, Cucumber

JK Marlow    jkm200618_5936

June    Greenville County    SC

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Cucumis sativus   FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cucumis sativus   FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cucumis sativus

INCLUDING Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Cucumis sativus var. sativus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Cucumis sativus

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4361

Herbaceous vine (with tendrils); Forb

Habitat: Gardens, fields, trash heaps, commonly cultivated in home gardens and commercially, sometimes volunteering from seed the following year, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: south Asia

Waif(s)

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LEAVES:
Simple - palmately lobed
Alternate

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

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Berry

 

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