This largely tropical to subtropical species includes the widely cultivsted butternut squash. crookneck squash, cheese pumpkin, calabaza pumpkin and many other cultivars (Andres 2004). No adequate taxonomic treatment of this variation is currently available.Vines of moschata occasionally grow 5-10 m long (or tall into trees), especially on waste ground near old gardens. It often has distinctive white flecks in leaves and fruits; also spinose pustulate-based hairs on stems, petioles and veins Other cultivated species may be expected as waifs: C. argyrosperma K. Koch (= C. mixta Pang)., including cushaw squash; and C. maxima Duschesne, including hubbard squash. These three species sometimes appear as waifs and may deserve more attention for the overall flora of Ky.