Echinocystis lobata

Wild Cucumber; Balsam Apple

Echinocystis lobata

• ANPC Rank –
• Moss, Flora of Alberta – Yes
• Global Invasive Species Database – No[1]
• NatureServe Rank – ?
• Haber, Upland – ?
• Haber, Wetland – ?
• CWF, Status & Invasive Range – ?
• Alberta Revegetation Guidelines – No
• The Nature Conservancy – No
• CBCN – No
• AB Weed – No

"Tall climbing annual herb, often to a height of 4-8 m, with branched tendrils... Introduced." - Moss, Flora of Alberta

Remarks

Wild Cucumber is occasionally grown in private gardens as an ornamental. It has been found growing wild in six locations in the Red Deer parks system.

[2] Common weeds of the northern United States and Canada, Canadian Weed Science Society

Fairview Escarpment, Red Deer - T. Blake photo

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 3: 292. Courtesy of Kentucky Native Plant Society.