Native records: 7 botanical areas
Arizona, California, Colorado, 4 more areas
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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 / shrub of desert or dry shrubland climates. Native to United States.
This entry carries only the classification and distribution data recorded in WCVP. A written account and images are not yet available.
Distribution areas
United States of America
- ArizonaNative
- CaliforniaNative
- ColoradoNative
- NevadaNative
- New MexicoNative
- OklahomaNative
- TexasNative
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.
- Cfa Temperate, no dry season, hot summer
- BSk Arid, steppe, cold
- BWk Arid, desert, cold
- BWh Arid, desert, hot
- Dfb Cold, no dry season, warm summer
- Csa Temperate, dry summer, hot summer
- Csb Temperate, dry summer, warm summer
- Dfc Cold, no dry season, cold summer
- BSh Arid, steppe, hot
- Dsb Cold, dry summer, warm summer
The same climate occurs in 174 areas worldwide, 167 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
- Opuntia
Other species in Opuntia
- Opuntia basilarisBakersfield beaver-tail cactus
- Opuntia bentonii
- Opuntia bonaerensis
- Opuntia bonplandii
- Opuntia bravoana
- Opuntia caboensis
- Opuntia canterae
- Opuntia caracassanaCommon Prickly Pear
- Opuntia cespitosaeastern prickly-pear cactus
- Opuntia chaffeyi
- Opuntia chiangiana
- Opuntia chisosensisChisos Mountain Prickly Pear
Sources
World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
United States of America · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
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