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

prickly cucumber

WFO wfo-0000661635 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Echinocystis lobata, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. a Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-28 / obs. 201329024
Echinocystis lobata, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. b Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200857373
Echinocystis lobata, photographed by Eric Schmidt
fig. c Eric Schmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201455030
Echinocystis lobata, photographed by Bruce Cook
fig. d Bruce Cook, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197478095
Echinocystis lobata, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. e Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197756426
Echinocystis lobata, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. f Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201069433
Echinocystis lobata, photographed by Sigitas Juzėnas
fig. g Sigitas Juzėnas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195735345
Echinocystis lobata, photographed by botchd
fig. h botchd, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197003706

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Flowering n = 1,941 observations

Peak flowering in Aug, from 1,941 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Echinocystis echinata (Muhl.) Vassilcz.
  • Echinocystis echinata Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.
  • Hexameria echinata Torr. & A.Gray
  • Micrampelis lobata (Michx.) Greene
  • Momordica echinata Muhl.
  • Sicyos lobatus Michx.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.