PLANTS Profile for Echinocereus coccineus (scarlet hedgehog cactus)

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Echinocereus coccineus Engelm.
scarlet hedgehog cactus

Symbol:

ECCO5

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Cactaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Shrub

Native Status:

L48

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Echinocereus coccineus Engelm.

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Distribution:
Echinocereus coccineus Engelm.


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USA (AZ, CA, CO, NM, NV, TX, UT)

Related Taxa:
Echinocereus coccineus Engelm.

View 51 genera in Cactaceae, 28 species in Echinocereus or click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles.

Distribution of Echinocereus coccineus Engelm. var. arizonicus (Rose ex Orcutt) D.J. Ferguson. . Image Available.

Echinocereus coccineus var. arizonicus
Arizona hedgehog cactus

Distribution of Echinocereus coccineus Engelm. var. coccineus. . Image Available.

Echinocereus coccineus var. coccineus
scarlet hedgehog cactus

Distribution of Echinocereus coccineus Engelm. var. gurneyi (L.D. Benson) K.D. Heil & Brack. . Image Available.

Echinocereus coccineus var. gurneyi
Gurney's hedgehog cactus

Distribution of Echinocereus coccineus Engelm. var. paucispinus (Engelm.) D.J. Ferguson. .

Echinocereus coccineus var. paucispinus
scarlet hedgehog cactus

Native

Introduced

Classification:
Echinocereus coccineus Engelm.

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Caryophyllidae
Order	Caryophyllales
Family	Cactaceae – Cactus family
Genus	Echinocereus Engelm. – hedgehog cactus
Species	Echinocereus coccineus Engelm. – scarlet hedgehog cactus

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Echinocereus coccineus Engelm.

The related entities and synonyms italicized and indented below are listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

United States:
Echinocereus triglochidiatus var. arizonicus [=ECCOA]
Arizona hedgehog cactus		Endangered
Arizona:
Echinocereus triglochidiatus var. arizonicus [=ECCOA]
Arizona hedgehog cactus		Highly Safeguarded
Echinocereus triglochidiatus var. melanacanthus [=ECCOC]
black-spine claret-cup hedgehog		Salvage restricted
Echinocereus triglochidiatus var. neomexicanus [=ECCOA]
Mexican claret-cup hedgehog		Salvage restricted

More Accounts and Images:
Echinocereus coccineus Engelm.

View photographs from CalPhotos.

View species account and distribution map from Flora of North America (FNA).

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 502202.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

Time Generated: 05/20/2013 03:27 AM CDT