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Cucurbita pepo

Family: cucurbitaceae
Common name(s): summer squash
Hardiness ratings: USDA zone 3 - 11

General resources

• Wikipedia. Online encyclopedia entry (if defined).
• Google images. Web search for photographs.
• The Plant List. Taxonomical lookup
• Catalogue of Life. Taxonomical lookup

Links for Cucurbita pepo

• BBC Gardening: Cucurbita pepo 'Hundredweight' - Plant profile with horticultural details and garden uses. (1 photo). Also pages for 'Orella' and 'Tivoli'.
• Climbers - Information page with most botanical details for this climbing species of the eastern US. (10 photos)
• Dave's Garden PlantFiles - Profile page with horticultural basics, and member-contributed photos and comments. (8 photos)
• Garden.org - Community-assembled plant profile (133 varieties in database) (15 photos)
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - Plant description and characteristics with notes on distribution, culture, and propagation.
• Missouri Botanical Garden - Plantfinder page for one of the plants growing at the garden, with usually one or more photos, horticultural information, and noteworthy characteristics. (63 photos)
• Missouri Plants - Description and photographs of botanical features, with notes about habitat and native status. (6 photos)
• North Carolina State University factsheet - Plant profile with horticultural details and comments (zone 3-11a) (10 photos)

Cucurbita pepo subsp. ovifera

Common name(s): Ornamental Gourd, Field Pumpkin

Links

• Dave's Garden PlantFiles - Profile page with horticultural basics, and member-contributed photos and comments. (8 photos)
• Garden.org: Cucurbita pepo var. ovifera 'Tennessee Dancing' - Community-assembled plant profile (7 photos)

Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo

Common name(s): spaghetti squash

Links

• Garden.org - Community-assembled plant profile (2 varieties in database) (8 photos)
• Rob's Plants: Cucurbita pepo ssp. pepo 'Spaghetti Squash' - Plant profile with basic horticultural information and often personal observations. (5 photos)