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Sicyos angulatus (bur cucumber; oneseed burr cucumber; burcucumber; blueeyedgrass; wall bur cucumber)

Synonyms: Sicyoides angulata (homotypic); Sicyos angulatus f. ohtanus; Sicyos schimperi

Wikipedia Abstract

Sicyos angulatus, the oneseed bur cucumber or star-cucumber is an annual vine in the cucumber family native to eastern North America. The plant forms mats or climbs using tendrils. The leaves are palmately veined and lobed, flowers green to yellowish green, fruits in clusters of very small pepos.
View Wikipedia Record: Sicyos angulatus

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Monoecious
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [1]  Vine
Height [1]  26 feet (8 m)
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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0