Index / Search / Echinocystis lobata

§1 Plant

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

vernacular wild cucumber — species · Cucurbitaceae


USDA
ECLO
GBIF
5331404
Rank
species
wild cucumber (Echinocystis lobata)
Platephotograph · Monteregina (Nicole)CC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Vine
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Cucurbitaceae Juss.
Genus
Echinocystis
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 730 counties across 30 states/territories
Legend Native · 730 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 730 counties across 30 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 1 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 44 N
Indiana view state ↗ 43 N
Iowa view state ↗ 17 N
Kansas view state ↗ 36 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 14 N
Maine view state ↗ 15 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N
Michigan view state ↗ 55 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 68 N
Missouri view state ↗ 30 N
Montana view state ↗ 7 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 36 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 16 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 N
New York view state ↗ 50 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 32 N
Ohio view state ↗ 66 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 57 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 20 N
Vermont view state ↗ 11 N
Virginia view state ↗ 2 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 11 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 69 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ECLO ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5331404 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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