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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Cucurbitaceae
Sicyos angulatus L.
bur-cucumber
Sicyos: Greek name for cucumber
angulatus: angular
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | annual, herbaceous vine; stems with branching tendrils |
| Flower: | white to greenish, 5-parted, 1/3" wide; inflorescence of male flowers in a long-stalked cluster (cyme-like raceme), the female flowers in a shorter-stalked, small, head-like cluster; blooms June-Aug. |
| Fruit: | not inflated, 1/2" long, dry, prickly capsule with 1 seed |
| Leaf: | broad with 3-5 shallow lobes |
| Habitat: | moist; streambanks |
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