PLANTS Profile for Escobaria (foxtail cactus)

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PLANTS Profile

Escobaria Britton & Rose
foxtail cactus

Symbol:

ESCOB

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Cactaceae

Duration:

Growth Habit:

Native Status:

None

More Information:

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Escobaria Britton & Rose

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Distribution:
Escobaria Britton & Rose

See U.S. county distributions (when available) by clicking on the map or the linked states below:
USA (AR, AZ, CA, CO, IA, ID, IL, KS, LA, MN, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WY), CAN (AB, MB, SK)

Related Taxa:
Escobaria Britton & Rose

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

Distribution of Escobaria albicolumnaria Hester. .

Escobaria albicolumnaria
column foxtail cactus

Distribution of Escobaria alversonii (J.M. Coult.) N.P. Taylor. . Image Available.

Escobaria alversonii
cushion foxtail cactus

Distribution of Escobaria dasyacantha (Engelm.) Britton & Rose. .

Escobaria dasyacantha
Big Bend foxtail cactus

Distribution of Escobaria duncanii (Hester) Backeb.. .

Escobaria duncanii
Duncan's foxtail cactus

Distribution of Escobaria emskoetteriana (Quehl) Borg. .

Escobaria emskoetteriana
junior Tom Thumb cactus

Distribution of Escobaria guadalupensis Brack & K.D. Heil. .

Escobaria guadalupensis
Guadalupe Mountain foxtail cactus

Distribution of Escobaria hesteri (Y. Wright) Buxbaum. . Image Available.

Escobaria hesteri
Hester's foxtail cactus

Distribution of Escobaria minima (Baird) D.R. Hunt. . Image Available.

Escobaria minima
Nellie cory cactus

Distribution of Escobaria missouriensis (Sweet) D.R. Hunt. . Image Available.

Escobaria missouriensis
Missouri foxtail cactus

Distribution of Escobaria orcuttii Boed.. . Image Available.

Escobaria orcuttii
Orcutt's foxtail cactus

Distribution of Escobaria organensis (A.D. Zimmerman) Castetter, Pierce & Schwerin. .

Escobaria organensis
Organ Mountain foxtail cactus

Distribution of Escobaria robbinsiorum (W.H. Earle) D.R. Hunt. .

Escobaria robbinsiorum
Cochise foxtail cactus

Distribution of Escobaria sandbergii Castetter, Pierce & Schwerin. .

Escobaria sandbergii
San Andres Mountain foxtail cactus

Distribution of Escobaria sneedii Britton & Rose. .

Escobaria sneedii
Sneed's pincushion cactus

Distribution of Escobaria tuberculosa (Engelm.) Britton & Rose. . Image Available.

Escobaria tuberculosa
whitecolumn foxtail cactus

Distribution of Escobaria villardii Castetter, Pierce & Schwerin. .

Escobaria villardii
Sacramento Mountain foxtail cactus

Distribution of Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum. . Image Available.

Escobaria vivipara
spinystar

Native

Introduced

Classification:
Escobaria Britton & Rose

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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	Escobaria Britton & Rose – foxtail cactus

More Accounts and Images:
Escobaria Britton & Rose

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 202465.

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

Time Generated: 06/18/2013 08:02 PM CDT