Bur Cucumber

(Sicyos angulatus)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Climbing summer annual vine

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from taproot

Leaf anatomy: Alternately arranged, wide, heart-shaped palmate leaves w/ 5 pointed lobes

Reproduction: Unisexual flowers, 5 petals, female flowers in clusters; fruit firm, not inflated, covered in barbed bristles

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}