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Relict Hedgehog Cactus

Echinocereus relictus

Relict Hedgehog Cactus
Photo: Mitch Van Dyke https://www.inaturalist.org/people/mitchvandyke, CC BY 4.0
Family
Cactaceae (Cactus family)
Grows as
Succulent
Native range
Utah
Climate
temperate

About

Echinocereus relictus is a species of hedgehog cactus commonly known as “purple-spined hedgehog cactus”.

Where it grows

Plants are found growing in Mohave County, Arizona and Washington County, Utah, United States at elevations of 700 to 1600 meters growing among rock outcrops and crevices in open hills and valleys in desert shrub and pinion juniper forest.

Other Echinocereus plants

Echinocereus acanthosetus · Echinocereus acifer · Echinocereus adustus · Apache hedgehog cactus · Arizona Hedgehog Cactus · Baker Kingcup Cactus · Echinocereus barthelowanus · Berlandier's hedgehog cactus · Pinkflower hedgehog cactus · Brandegee's Hedgehog Cactus · Sonoran Rainbow Hedgehog · Echinocereus canus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Echinocereus relictus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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