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Curcurbita digitata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Cucurbitales
Family:	Cucurbitaceae
Genus:	Cucurbita
Species:	C. digitata
Binomial name
	Cucurbita digitata; Gray

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Cucurbita digitata is a species of flowering plant in the squash family known by the common names fingerleaf gourd and bitter squash.

This wild squash plant is native to the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico where it is relatively uncommon.

Description

Cucurbita digitata is is a hairy vining plant with sharply palmate leaves having five fingerlike lobes. It is quite similar in appearance to its close relative, the coyote gourd Cucurbita palmata, but the lobes of its leaves are usually more slender.

It has curling yellow flowers up to 5 centimeters wide.

The fruit is a dark green squash, rounded or nearly rounded, with mottling and distinct white stripes. The bitter fruit is very distasteful and generally not edible, although a few animals may hesitantly eat the flesh while trying to get at the seeds. Each white seed is about a centimeter long and at 35% protein and 50% fat is a nutritious food.

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-'''''Cucurbita digitata''''' is a species of flowering plant in the [[Cucurbitaceae|squash family]] known by the common names '''fingerleaf gourd''' and '''bitter squash'''. This wild squash plant is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico where it is relatively uncommon. This is a hairy vining plant with sharply [[Leaf shape|palmate]] leaves having five fingerlike lobes. It is quite similar in appearance to its close relative, the coyote gourd ''[[Cucurbita palmata]]'', but the lobes of its leaves are usually more slender. It has curling yellow flowers up to 5 centimeters wide. The fruit is a dark green squash, rounded or nearly rounded, with mottling and distinct white stripes. The bitter fruit is very distasteful and generally not edible, although a few animals may hesitantly eat the flesh while trying to get at the seeds. Each white seed is about a centimeter long and at 35% protein and 50% fat is a nutritious food.
+'''''Cucurbita digitata''''' is a species of flowering plant in the [[Cucurbitaceae|squash family]] known by the common names '''fingerleaf gourd''' and '''bitter squash'''.
+This wild squash plant is native to the [[Southwestern United States]] and [[Northwestern Mexico]] where it is relatively uncommon.
+==Description==
+''Cucurbita digitata'' is is a hairy vining plant with sharply [[Leaf shape|palmate]] leaves having five fingerlike lobes. It is quite similar in appearance to its close relative, the coyote gourd ''[[Cucurbita palmata]]'', but the lobes of its leaves are usually more slender.
+It has curling yellow flowers up to 5 centimeters wide.
+The fruit is a dark green squash, rounded or nearly rounded, with mottling and distinct white stripes. The bitter fruit is very distasteful and generally not edible, although a few animals may hesitantly eat the flesh while trying to get at the seeds. Each white seed is about a centimeter long and at 35% protein and 50% fat is a nutritious food.
 ==External links==
-*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?3375,3385,3386 Jepson Manual Treatment]
+*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?3375,3385,3386 Jepson Manual Treatment: ''Cucurbita digitata'']
-*[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CUDI USDA Plants Profile]
+*[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CUDI USDA Plants Profile — ''Cucurbita digitata'']
 *[http://www.desertmuseum.org/books/nhsd_cucurbitaceae.php Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Profile]
-{{Cucurbitales-stub}}
 [[Category:Cucurbitaceae]]
 [[Category:Vines]]
-[[Category:Flora of the California desert regions]]
+[[Category:Flora of Northwestern Mexico]]
+[[Category:Flora of the Southwestern United States]]
+[[Category:Flora of California]]
+[[Category:Flora of Sonora]]
 [[Category:Flora of the Sonoran Deserts]]
 [[Category:North American desert flora]]
+[[Category:Flora of the California desert regions]]
+[[Category:Peninsular Ranges|~]]
+[[Category:Squashes and pumpkins]]
+{{-}}
+{{Cucurbitales-stub}}