Cucurbita

Accepted species 19 Documented here 9 Family Cucurbitaceae

Accepted species 19 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth 1,269 documented
Cucurbita palmata S.Watson 207 documented
Cucurbita pepo L. 116 documented
Cucurbita digitata A.Gray 66 documented
Cucurbita moschata Duchesne 58 documented
Cucurbita ficifolia Bouché 52 documented
Cucurbita maxima Duchesne 42 documented
Cucurbita argyrosperma C.Huber 16 documented
Cucurbita cordata S.Watson 5 documented
Cucurbita lundelliana L.H.Bailey 1 below the evidence gate
Cucurbita pedatifolia L.H.Bailey 1 below the evidence gate
Cucurbita × scabridifolia L.H.Bailey 0 below the evidence gate
Cucurbita andreana Naudin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucurbita cylindrata L.H.Bailey 0 below the evidence gate
Cucurbita ecuadorensis H.C.Cutler & Whitaker 0 below the evidence gate
Cucurbita galeottii Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Cucurbita melopepo L. 0 below the evidence gate
Cucurbita okeechobeensis (Small) L.H.Bailey 0 below the evidence gate
Cucurbita radicans Naudin 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.