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These are Opuntias used as garden plant because they have purple pads, attractive spines, relatively small sizes, colorful flower displays, easy growth, or reliable performance.

Opuntia mesacantha

Opuntia mesacantha, Southeastern Low Pricklypear

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Rafinesque, Bulletin Botanique 1: 216, 1830 (Also see Opuntia mesacantha Raf ssp mesacantha Majure, Phytotaxa 290, 1: 1–65) See O. cespitosa    See O. humifusa    See O. lata Neotype; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Hebarium (as O. humifusa); Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium Original Description  What is Opuntia mesacantha? Opuntia mesacantha is a southeastern prickly pear found in […]

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Opuntia xanthoglochia, Yellow-glochid Pricklypear

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Griffiths, Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden 21: 166, 1910 Holotype; Herbarium; Herbarium; Painting (Mary Emily Eaton); Painting (Mary Emily Eaton) Original Description What is Opuntia xanthoglochia? Opuntia xanthoglochia is a prickly pear cactus found in central Texas east of Austin, although it may range into other areas. Details O. xanthoglochia resembles O. macrorhiza.

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Opuntia cespitosa, Common Eastern Pricklypear

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See O. humifusa    See O. lata    See O. mesacantha Rafinesque, Bulletin Botanique 2: 216, 1830 Neotype; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Original Description; Drawing (Britton and Rose v1, 1919) What is Opuntia cespitosa? Opuntia cespitosa is a widespread eastern North American prickly-pear forming low, cespitose clumps

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Opuntia zuniensis, Zuni Pricklypear

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Griffiths, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 43: 86, 1916 Holotype; Isotype; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium Original Description. What is Opuntia zuniensis? Opuntia zuniensis is a handsome, prickly pear cactus found in Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, far western Texas, and perhaps southwestern Colorado. It has been confused with O. phaeacantha, O. tortispina, or

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Opuntia woodsii, Zion Pricklypear

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Backeberg, Descriptiones Cactacearum Novarum 10, 1956 Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium Original Citation What is Opuntia woodsii? O. woodsii is a unique, red-flowered, medium-sized Opuntia from southern Utah and northern Arizona.  relatively elongate ovaries (at flowering) and fruits, on average (shape varies somewhat with growing conditions and where on the

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Opuntia tortispina, Twist-spine Pricklypear

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Engelmann & J.M. Bigelow, Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean 4(5; 3): 41 (1857 publ. 1856) Isolectoype; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium (submitted as O. aff polyacantha); Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium (submitted as O. polyacantha);

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Opuntia trichophora, Woolly Cactus

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(Engelmann & J. M. Bigelow) Britton & Rose, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 50: 535, 1908 Lectotype (O. missouriensis trichophora); Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Drawing (The Botany of the Expedition, 1856, plate XV No. 1-4 [O. missouriensis trichophora]) Opuntia trichophora is possibly related to O. arenaria O. trichophora is related to O. diploursina O. trichophora is related to O. polyacantha Original Citation What is

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Opuntia pusilla

Opuntia pusilla (O. drummondii), Cockspur Pricklypear

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(Haworth) Haworth, Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum 195, 1812 Neotype; Neotype; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium;  Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium (O. frustulenta); Painting Original Description What is Opuntia pusilla? Opuntia pusilla is a small prickly pear cactus of the Atlantic Coastal Plants from North Carolina, and across parts of northern Florida

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Opuntia polyacantha erinaceae

Opuntia polyacantha, Common Pricklypear

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Haworth, Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum 82, 1819 Original Description What is Opuntia polyacantha? Opuntia polyacantha is a variable prickly pear cactus ranging from Mexico near California, to Texas, to the Rocky Mountain states, the Great Plains, and north into Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 2018, a disjunct population was discovered in the Thousand Islands region of Ontario, Canada. This

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