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§1 Plant
Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth
vernacular Missouri gourd — species · Cucurbitaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Vine
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Cucurbita
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 124 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -20 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 160 min.
- Precipitation
- 5–41 in/yr
- pH range
- 7–8.8
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Yellow
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 23,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Contracting Only
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 124 counties across 10 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Christian 17021
- Cook 17031
- DuPage 17043
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Henry 17073
- Kane 17089
- Kendall 17093
- Marshall 17123
- McDonough 17109
- Menard 17129
- Morgan 17137
- Putnam 17155
- Sangamon 17167
- St. Clair 17163
- Tazewell 17179
- Union 17181
- Winnebago 17201
- Woodford 17203
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 84 N ▾
- Anderson 20003
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Bourbon 20011
- Butler 20015
- Chase 20017
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Cloud 20029
- Coffey 20031
- Comanche 20033
- Cowley 20035
- Decatur 20039
- Dickinson 20041
- Edwards 20047
- Elk 20049
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Geary 20061
- Gove 20063
- Graham 20065
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Harvey 20079
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Jackson 20085
- Jefferson 20087
- Jewell 20089
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Lane 20101
- Leavenworth 20103
- Lincoln 20105
- Logan 20109
- Marion 20115
- Marshall 20117
- McPherson 20113
- Meade 20119
- Mitchell 20123
- Morris 20127
- Morton 20129
- Neosho 20133
- Ness 20135
- Norton 20137
- Osborne 20141
- Ottawa 20143
- Pawnee 20145
- Phillips 20147
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Pratt 20151
- Rawlins 20153
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Rice 20159
- Riley 20161
- Rooks 20163
- Rush 20165
- Russell 20167
- Saline 20169
- Scott 20171
- Sedgwick 20173
- Seward 20175
- Shawnee 20177
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Smith 20183
- Stafford 20185
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Sumner 20191
- Thomas 20193
- Trego 20195
- Wabaunsee 20197
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
- Woodson 20207
- Wyandotte 20209
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CUFO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2874521 ↗Record version
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