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Sicyos angulatus
Also called Bur Cucumber, Star Cucumber, Angled Burr Cucumber, Burr Cucumber, One Seed Burr Cucumber, One Seed Star Cucumber, Wall Burr Cucumber
Oneseed bur cucumber is a climbing annual vine in the gourd family, native to eastern North America, that climbs with tendrils or forms mats on the ground. It thrives in fertile, moist, disturbed soil and is usually grown outdoors rather than as a houseplant.
Sicyos angulatus, the oneseed bur cucumber or star-cucumber is an annual vine in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, native to eastern North America. The plant forms mats or climbs using tendrils. The leaves are palmately veined and lobed, the flowers are green to yellowish green, and the fruits form clusters of very small pepos.
S. angulatus is native to Ontario and Quebec in Canada, and the eastern and southern parts of the United States as far west as North Dakota and Texas. It grows in fertile, moist habitats such as floodplain areas, damp grassland, thickets, bushy places, river banks, ditches and field verges. It appreciates disturbed ground.
The foliage of Sicyos angulatus can be cooked and eaten as a green vegetable. A decoction of the plant is reputed to be used in traditional Native American medicine to treat venereal disease.
White bur cucumber · Gray's bur cucumber · Alpine bur cucumber · Bur cucumber
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sicyos angulatus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
