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Pelecyphora missouriensis

Escobaria missouriensis

Also called Missouri foxtail cactus, Missouri Fox-Tail Cactus

Pelecyphora missouriensis
Photo: c299792458, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Cactaceae (Cactus family)
Grows as
Succulent

About

Pelecyphora missouriensis, the Missouri foxtail cactus and formerly Coryphantha missouriensis, is a species of low-growing North American cacti.

Where it grows

It is found in along the Missouri River in the tallgrass prairie and shortgrass Great Plains, from Texas to Montana and the Dakotas, and in the Rocky Mountains woodlands of Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), pinyon-juniper, and Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii) west of it. It is also native to the Southwestern United States in Idaho, Kansas,Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah and Mexico in the states of Coahuila and Nuevo León.

Other Pelecyphora plants

Pelecyphora duncanii · Pelecyphora lloydii · Pelecyphora minima · Pelecyphora sneedii · Pelecyphora tuberculosa · Pelecyphora zilziana · Pelecyphora abdita · Pelecyphora alversonii · Hatchet Cactus · Pelecyphora chihuahuensis · Pelecyphora chlorantha · Pelecyphora cubensis

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

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