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§1 Plant

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

vernacular watermelon — species · Cucurbitaceae

USDA
CILA3
GBIF
2874621
Rank
species
watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
Platephotograph · Ahmad Fuad MoradCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Vine
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Cucurbitaceae Juss.
Genus
Citrullus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • NAV Navassa Island Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 1 county across 1 state
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 1 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.

§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 1 county across 1 state.

Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CILA3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2874621 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25

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