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Pelecyphora dasyacantha

Pelecyphora dasyacantha
Photo: Marco Wentzel, Deutschland/Germany, MarcoPedia (talk) 15:36, 3 December 2016 (UTC), CC BY 4.0
Family
Cactaceae (Cactus family)
Grows as
Shrub, Succulent
Native range
W. Texas to NE. Mexico (to Jalisco)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Pelecyphora dasyacantha is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, native to the Mexico.

Where it grows

Pelecyphora dasyacantha is distributed in the United States in the states of New Mexico and Texas and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Zacatecas.

Other Pelecyphora plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pelecyphora dasyacantha 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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