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Contents

• Control of vine weeds
• Balloonvine
• Burcucumber
• Dodder
• Field bindweed
• Honeyvine milkweed
• Japanese honeysuckle
• Japanese hops
• Japanese knotweed
• Kudzu
• Morningglories, annual
• Morningglory, bigroot
• Poison ivy
• Redvine
• Trumpetcreeper
• Virginia creeper
• Wild buckwheat

Related pages

• G4875, Control of Perennial Broadleaf Weeds in Missouri Field Crops
• G4880, Poison Ivy Identification and Control
• G6750, Home Lawn Weed Control
• IPM1007, Practical Weed Science for the Field Scout: Corn and Soybean
• IPM1014, Noxious Weeds of Missouri
• IPM1019, Caterpillars in Your Yard and Garden
• IPM1023, Missouri Weed Seeds
• NCR33, Vine Weeds of the North Central States

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Vine Weeds of Missouri

Burcucumber (Sicyos angulatus)

Growth habit

• Summer annual

Other names

• Star cucumber

Origin

• Europe and Asia

Control classification

• Moderately difficult

Note

• Before using any herbicide, read and follow directions on the label accompanying that product. Reference to specific trade names does not imply endorsement by the University of Missouri; discrimination is not intended against similar products.

 

Burcucumber has tendrils that aid the plant in climbing. The leaves are usually 5-lobed, occasionally 3-lobed and alternate along the stems. A noticeable feature of the plant is the sticky hairs that are present on the stems and leaves. The fruit of burcucumber is produced in clusters and covered with stiff spines. Each fruit produces a single seed. The plant is sensitive to frost and will die after the first fall frost.

In Missouri, burcucumber is most often encountered in alluvial river bottom areas. Burcucumber.

IPM1007 burcucumber

IPM1021, new December 2003