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Micropuntia pulchella
Also called Sagebrush Cholla, Sagebrush Club Cholla
Beautiful cholla is a small, tuberous cactus from the Great Basin Desert that dies back to an underground storage tuber in harsh conditions and resprouts when conditions improve. Grow it as a sun-loving, very drought-tolerant desert plant in gritty, fast-draining soil.
Micropuntia is a monotypic genus of cactus. Its only species is Micropuntia pulchella, synonym Grusonia pulchella. The species is also known as sagebrush cholla. It is a tuberous species of opuntioid cactus from the Great Basin Desert of central Nevada, eastern California and western Utah in the United States.
Sagebrush cholla is native to three western US states, California, Nevada, and Utah.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Micropuntia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
