§1 Plant
Cucumis melo L.
vernacular cantaloupe — species · Cucurbitaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Vine
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Cucumis
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 112 counties across 17 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 112 counties across 17 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 54 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Massachusetts view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 2 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CUME ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2874570 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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