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|accepted_name=Cucurbita digitata
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|place=5(6): 60. 1853
|year=1853
}}
|common_names=Finger-leaf or coyote gourd
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cucurbitaceae;Cucurbita;Cucurbita digitata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cucurbitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cucurbita]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cucurbita digitata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 49, 50, 52
|treatment_page=page 51
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; roots tuberous. <b>Stems</b> usually sprawling, sometimes climbing, often rooting adventitiously at nodes, to 10 m, sparsely hirsute-strigillose with deflexed hairs to hispid-strigose or hirsute-strigose, muriculate or glabrous on ribs; tendrils 2–5-branched 1–1.5 cm above base, glabrous, often gland-tipped. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 3–4(–8) cm, hispid or hispid and hirsute, often with deflexed hairs; blade depressed-ovate to reniform, palmately 5-lobed, sinuses nearly or completely to petiole, 4–11 × 8–15 cm, usually broader than long, base cordate, lobes narrowly lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 2–12 cm, margins coarsely toothed or remotely sinuate-dentate to serrate, surfaces hispid to hispidulous, midvein and major veins whitish adaxially, densely hispidulous-strigillose with white hairs, eglandular. <b>Peduncles</b> in fruit shallowly 5-ribbed, not abruptly expanded at point of fruit attachment, spongy. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium cylindric to narrowly campanulate, 2.5–3 mm; sepals linear-subulate, 3–5 mm; corolla bright yellow, narrowly campanulate, 4–7 cm; anther filaments glabrous; ovary villous-hirsute. <b>Pepos</b> dark green with 10 whitish stripes and white mottling or yellow at maturity, globose to depressed-globose or oblong-globose, (6–)7–9.5 cm, smooth, rind thin, hard-shelled. <b>Seeds</b> dull white, ovate, obtusely pointed, 8–11 mm, margins thickened-raised, surfaces smooth. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Feb, Apr–)May–Sep(–Oct).
|habitat=Larrea desert, often with Acacia, Cercidium, and Yucca, grasslands with Atriplex, mesquite, juniper-scrub, oak savannas (rarely), canal banks, stream bottoms and sides, wash and arroyo banks, dry stream channels, alluvial plains, rocky slopes, disturbed sites, roadsides
|elevation=(100–)300–1500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Baja California;Chihuahua;Sonora).
|discussion=<p>In Texas, <i>Cucurbita digitata</i> is known by a single collection, from southeastern Presidio County in 1975, along gravelly banks of Fresno Creek (M. L. Butterwick 1980).</p><!--
--><p>Leaves of juvenile plants or the first growth of the season of <i>Cucurbita digitata</i> produce shorter and broader lobes, but mature leaves are similar to those of <i>C. palmata</i> (R. S. Felger 2000). <i>Cucurbita digitata</i> and <i>C. palmata</i> intergrade where their ranges meet in southwestern Arizona, southeastern California, and northeastern Baja California; with C. cordata S. Watson and C. cylindrata L. H. Bailey of Baja California, they form a group of closely related, allopatric, mostly intergrading species (W. P. Bemis and T. W. Whitaker 1965, 1969).</p>
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name=Cucurbita digitata
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cucurbitaceae
|phenology=Flowering (Feb, Apr–)May–Sep(–Oct).
|habitat=Larrea desert, often with Acacia, Cercidium, and Yucca, grasslands with Atriplex, mesquite, juniper-scrub, oak savannas (rarely), canal banks, stream bottoms and sides, wash and arroyo banks, dry stream channels, alluvial plains, rocky slopes, disturbed sites, roadsides
|elevation=(100–)300–1500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Baja California;Chihuahua;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|publication year=1853
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Cucurbita
|species=Cucurbita digitata
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