Native records: 3 botanical areas
Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest
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Distribution is shown as WGSRPD Level 3 areas. It does not imply the species occurs throughout an entire area.
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A succulent subshrub of desert or dry shrubland climates. Native to Mexico.
This entry carries only the classification and distribution data recorded in WCVP. A written account is not yet available.
Distribution areas
Mexico
- Mexico NortheastNative
- Mexico NorthwestNative
- Mexico SouthwestNative
Climate of the native range
The Köppen climate classes found in the areas this plant is recorded as native to. It does not mean an entire area has that climate.
- BWh Arid, desert, hot
- Aw Tropical, savannah
- BSh Arid, steppe, hot
- Cwb Temperate, dry winter, warm summer
- BSk Arid, steppe, cold
- Cwa Temperate, dry winter, hot summer
The same climate occurs in 125 areas worldwide, 122 of which have no record of this plant. See them on the map
A matching climate does not mean the plant can grow there. Range limits are also set by things other than climate — dispersal history, soils, competition. Source: Beck et al. (2023), CC BY 4.0 (observed period 1991–2020).
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Mammillaria
Other species in Mammillaria
Sources
World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
Mexico · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
Open source
Image information
Photograph of Mammillaria scrippsiana
Tangopaso · Public domain · File page