View source for Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo

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|name=Cucurbita aurantia
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|name=C. pepo var. medullosa
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|hierarchy=Cucurbitaceae;Cucurbita;Cucurbita pepo;Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo
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|volume=Volume 6
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|treatment_page=page 54
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; roots taproots or fibrous. <b>Stems</b> creeping or climbing, rooting adventitiously at nodes, to 3 m, hispid with persistent, strongly pustulate-based hairs and a hispidulous-hirsutulous understory; tendrils 2–7-branched 1–5 cm above base, hispidulous to hirsutulous, eglandular. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 5–20(–24) cm, pustulate-hispid (pustulate-based) and hispidulous-hirsutulous; blade sometimes white-spotted at vein junctions, broadly ovate-cordate to triangular-cordate or reniform, shallowly to deeply palmately (3–)5–7-lobed, 20–30 × 20–35 cm, usually broader than long or equally so, base cordate, lobes ovate-deltate to obovate or obovate-rhombic, midveins of leaf lobes not distinctly elongate-whitened, margins denticulate to serrate-denticulate, surfaces hirsute, hirsute-strigillose, villous-strigose, or hispidulous-scabrous, eglandular. <b>Peduncles</b> in fruit 5-ribbed, not or very gradually expanded at point of fruit attachment, hardened, woody. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium campanulate, 8–12 mm; sepals linear to subulate-linear, 8–25 mm; corolla yellow to golden yellow or orange, tubular-campanulate, 4–10 cm; anther filaments glabrous; ovary villous. <b>Pepos</b> wholly light to dark green, green with white stripes, or minutely cream- or green-speckled to yellow, orange, or bicolored green and yellow, globose or depressed-globose to ovoid, obovoid, ellipsoid-ovoid, broadly ellipsoid, slightly pyriform, cushion-shaped, or cylindric, 5–10(–25) cm, usually smooth or ribbed, rarely verrucose, flesh whitish to yellowish or pale orange, soft, not bitter. <b>Seeds</b> whitish to cream or tawny, narrowly to broadly elliptic to obovate, rarely orbiculate, 7–15(–26) mm, margins raised-thickened, surface ± smooth. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Oct.
|habitat=Vacant lots, trash heaps, roadsides, disturbed sites
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Calif.;Conn.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Mass.;Mich.;Nev.;N.H.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Utah;Va.;Mexico;South America;introduced also in West Indies;Central America;Eurasia;Atlantic Islands.
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|synonyms=Cucurbita aurantia;C. pepo var. medullosa
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|family=Cucurbitaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Oct.
|habitat=Vacant lots, trash heaps, roadsides, disturbed sites
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Calif.;Conn.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Mass.;Mich.;Nev.;N.H.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Utah;Va.;Mexico;South America;introduced also in West Indies;Central America;Eurasia;Atlantic Islands.
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|genus=Cucurbita
|species=Cucurbita pepo
|subspecies=Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo
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