Echinocystis lobata (Michx.) Torr. & A.Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 542 1840. (syn: Echinocystis echinata (Muhl. ex Willd.) Britt., Stern & Pogg.; Echinocystis echinata (Muhl.) Vass.; Hexameria echinata Torr. & Gray; Micrampelis lobata (Michx.) Greene; Momordica echinata Muhl.; Sicyos lobatus Michx.);

USA (Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware,
Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts,
Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio,
Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah,
Virginia, Vermont, Washington State, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming), Canada
(Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario,
Prince Edward Isl., Quebec, Saskatchewan), European Russia (I), Estonia (I),
Belarus (I), Latvia (I), Lithuania (I), Siberia (I), Russian Far East (I),
Austria (I), Czech Republic (I), Slovakia (I), Germany (I), Hungary (I), former
Yugoslavia (I), Slovenia (I), Croatia (I), Romania (I), Italy (I), Ukraine (I),
Kyrgyzstan (I), Northern Caucasus (I), Azerbaijan (I)
as per Catalogue of Life;

 

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Echinocystis lobata (Mischx.) Torr. & A. Gray  

Common Names:  Wild cucumber, Prickly cucumber, Bur cucumber  

Annual climbing herb with palmately lobed leaves, unisexual flowers with long corolla lobes, male flowers in panicles, female flowers producing prickly fruit.
Clicked from Rattray Marsh, Mississauga, Canada, August 23, 2019.






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