Field pumpkin
Cucurbita pepo L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- 4.1 m
Cucurbitaceae
Formerly Citrullus variegatus, Cucumis pepo, Cucumis zapallo, Cucurbita aurantia, and 27 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Chinese
- 桃南瓜, 美國南瓜, 西葫芦
- Czech
- tykev obecná
- Welsh
- maro
- Finnish
- satokurpitsa
- Dutch
- Sierpompoen
- Polish
- dynia zwyczajna
- Slovenian
- navadna buča
- Simplified Chinese
- 西葫芦
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 1.0
- 3D model: Cucurbita pepo (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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