Wild Cucumber

Wild Cucumber

[Echinocystis lobata (Michx.) Torr. & A. Gray]

Cucurbitaceae (Squash Family)

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• wild cucumber (p. 218, Weeds of the Northeast)has smoother stems, star-shaped leaves and a single, larger, bur-like pod, compared to the hairy stems, and clustered fruit of burcucumber

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