Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Echinocereus zapalinamensis

Echinocereus zapalinamensis
Photo: Aarón Sandoval, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Cactaceae (Cactus family)
Grows as
Shrub, Succulent
Native range
NE. Mexico (Sierra de Zapaliname)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Echinocereus zapalinamensis is a species of Echinocereus found in Mexico.

Where it grows

This species is native to northeastern Mexico, specifically the Serranía de Zapalinamé in Coahuila. It thrives in seasonally dry tropical environments, typically between 1700 and 2550 meters elevation. Its habitat includes calcareous soils in transitional areas between valleys and desert or semi-desert plateaus, as well as pine forests and mountain woodlands that receive more rainfall.

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 zapalinamensis 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…