Index / Search / Citrullus lanatus
§1 Plant
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
vernacular watermelon — species · Cucurbitaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Vine
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Citrullus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- NAV Navassa Island Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 151 counties across 21 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 151 counties across 21 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Calhoun 12013
- Franklin 12037
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Manatee 12081
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- Sumter 12119
- Volusia 12127
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 35 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Jackson 22049
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Mary 22101
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Webster 22119
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maine view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 11 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CILA3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2874621 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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