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hedgehog cactuses
Echinocereus
Echinocereus is a genus of ribbed, usually small to medium-sized cylindrical cacti, comprising about 70 species native to the southern United States and Mexico in very sunny rocky places. Usually the flowers are large and the fruit edible.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Echinocereus
subgenusEchinocereus
Triglochidiatus
subgenusTriglochidiatus
Roetter’s Hedgehog Cactus
hybridEchinocereus × roetteri
Lloyd’s Hedgehog Cactus
hybridEchinocereus × lloydii
Echinocereus × neomexicanus
hybridEchinocereus × neomexicanus
Echinocereus × kunzei
hybridEchinocereus × kunzei
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 68190.