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Foxtail Cactuses
Escobaria
Pelecyphora, pincushion cactus or foxtail cactus is a genus of cacti, comprising 20 species. They originate from Mexico and the United States.
Common species include the Missouri foxtail cactus P. missouriensis, widespread in grassland and forest west of the Mississippi, and the spinystar P. vivipara, distributed across the US and into Canada, first described by Nuttall in 1813.
22 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Spinystar
speciesEscobaria vivipara
Missouri Foxtail Cactus
speciesEscobaria missouriensis
Whitecolumn Foxtail Cactus
speciesEscobaria tuberculosa
Desert Spinystar
speciesEscobaria chlorantha
Cushion Foxtail Cactus
speciesEscobaria alversonii
Carpet Foxtail Cactus
speciesEscobaria sneedii
Junior Tom Thumb Cactus
speciesEscobaria emskoetteriana
Cob Corycactus
speciesEscobaria chihuahuensis
Big Bend Foxtail Cactus
speciesEscobaria dasyacantha
Organ Mountains Foxtail Cactus
speciesEscobaria organensis
Column Foxtail Cactus
speciesEscobaria albicolumnaria
Cochise Foxtail Cactus
speciesEscobaria robbinsiorum
Duncan's Foxtail Cactus
speciesEscobaria duncanii
Sacramento Mountain Foxtail Cactus
speciesEscobaria villardii
Escobaria lloydii
speciesEscobaria lloydii
Hester's Corycactus
speciesEscobaria hesteri
Nellie Corycactus
speciesEscobaria minima
Mexican Snowball Cactus
speciesEscobaria zilziana
Escobaria laredoi
speciesEscobaria laredoi
San Andres Mountain Foxtail Cactus
speciesEscobaria sandbergii
Escobaria abdita
speciesEscobaria abdita
Holguín Dwarf Cactus
speciesEscobaria cubensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 143722.