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.

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.