PLANTS Profile for Echinocactus texensis (horse crippler)

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PLANTS Profile

Echinocactus texensis Hopffer
horse crippler

Symbol:

ECTE

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Cactaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Shrub

L48

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Echinocactus texensis Hopffer

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Synonyms:
Echinocactus texensis Hopffer

HOTE7

Homalocephala texensis (Hopffer) Britton & Rose

Distribution:
Echinocactus texensis Hopffer


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USA (NM, OK, TX)

Related Taxa:
Echinocactus texensis Hopffer

View 51 genera in Cactaceae, 3 species in Echinocactus

Classification:
Echinocactus texensis Hopffer

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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	Echinocactus Link & Otto – echinocactus
Species	Echinocactus texensis Hopffer – horse crippler

More Accounts and Images:
Echinocactus texensis Hopffer

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

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 19822.

View species account and photographs from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

Time Generated: 02/10/2010 12:51 AM MST