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§1 Plant
Cucurbita pepo L.
vernacular field pumpkin — species · Cucurbitaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Vine
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Cucurbita
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 141 counties across 26 states/territories§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 141 counties across 26 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 B ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 12 B ▾
California view state ↗ 2 B ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 10 B ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 5 B ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 22 B ▾
- Ascension 22005
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caldwell 22021
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Iberia 22045
- Jefferson 22051
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Red River 22081
- St. Helena 22091
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Vermilion 22113
- Washington 22117
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 B ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 2 B ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 B ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 13 B ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 B ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 B ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 B ▾
New York view state ↗ 7 B ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 4 B ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 7 B ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 13 B ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 B ▾
Texas view state ↗ 17 B ▾
Utah view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 3 B ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 B ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CUPE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2874508 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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