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Engelmann Prickly Pear Complex
Opuntia engelmannii
Opuntia engelmannii is a prickly pear common across the south-central and Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It goes by a variety of common names, including desert prickly pear, discus prickly pear, Engelmann's prickly pear in the US, and nopal, abrojo, joconostle, and vela de coyote in Mexico.
15 branches of this group, most-observed first
Engelmann's Pricklypear
speciesOpuntia engelmannii
Texas Pricklypear
speciesOpuntia lindheimeri
Western Pricklypear
speciesOpuntia orbiculata
Carolina Prickly-pear Cactus
speciesOpuntia tunoidea
Opuntia rastrera
speciesOpuntia rastrera
Arizona Pricklypear
speciesOpuntia arizonica
beach Texas pricklypear
speciesOpuntia bentonii
Opuntia discata
speciesOpuntia discata
Opuntia gomei
speciesOpuntia gomei
Confused Pricklypear
speciesOpuntia confusa
Wooton Pricklypear
speciesOpuntia wootonii
cold-hardy western pricklypear
speciesOpuntia cyclodes
Opuntia valida
speciesOpuntia valida
Narrow Pricklypear
speciesOpuntia angustata
Opuntia riparia
speciesOpuntia riparia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1492999.