PLANTS Profile for Cucurbita foetidissima (Missouri gourd)

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Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth
Missouri gourd

Symbol:

CUFO

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Cucurbitaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Vine
Forb/herb

Native Status:

L48

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Synonyms:
Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth

PEFO4

Pepo foetidissima (Kunth) Britton

Distribution:
Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth


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USA (AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MI, MO, NE, NM, NV, OH, OK, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY)

Related Taxa:
Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth

View 34 genera in Cucurbitaceae, 9 species in Cucurbita

Classification:
Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Dilleniidae
Order	Violales
Family	Cucurbitaceae – Cucumber family
Genus	Cucurbita L. – gourd
Species	Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth – Missouri gourd

U.S. Weed Information:
Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth

Missouri gourd
buffalo gourd
calabazilla
wild gourd
wild pumkin

This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below. This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.

NE&GP		Stubbendieck, J., G.Y. Friisoe, & M.R. Bolick. 1994. Weeds of Nebraska and the Great Plains. Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Lincoln, Nebraska. 589pp.
SWSS		Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada. CD-ROM. Southern Weed Science Society. Champaign, Illinois.

More Accounts and Images:
Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth

View photographs from CalPhotos.

View species account and distribution from USF Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 22368.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View species account and photographs from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

View species account and photographs from University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Freckmann Herbarium.

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Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth

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Time Generated: 09/25/2008 06:25 AM MDT