Plains pricklypear
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Name (Latin)
Plains pricklypear
Other forms of name
Opuntia polyacantha
Plains prickly pear
Plains pricklypear cactus
See Also From tracing topical name
Opuntia
Prickly pears
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q309965
Library of congress:
sh 00003446
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Smith, M.A. Prescribed burning on Wyoming rangeland, 1985:p. 1 (Plains pricklypear cactus (Opuntia polyacantha))
- Integrated Taxonomic Info. System, Jan. 27, 2000(Opuntia polyacantha. Common name: plains pricklypear. Synonyms: none)
- The PLANTS database, via WWW, Jan. 27, 2000(Opuntia polyacantha Haw., plains pricklypear)
- Brako, L. Scientific and common names of 7,000 vascular plants in the United States, 1995:p. 53 (Opuntia polyacantha, plains prickly-pear)
- Scientific and common plant names and synonymy, state of Washington, 1983:sci. names, p. 18 (Opuntia polyacantha, plains pricklypear)
- Everett, T.H. The New York Botanical Garden illustrated encyclopedia of horticulture, c1980-c1982:v. 7, p. 2407 (plains prickly-pear (O. polyacantha))
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Wikipedia description:
Opuntia polyacantha is a common species of cactus known by the common names plains pricklypear, starvation pricklypear, hairspine cactus, and panhandle pricklypear. It is native to North America, where it is widespread in Western Canada, the Great Plains, the central and Western United States, and Chihuahua in northern Mexico. In 2018, a disjunct population was discovered in the Thousand Islands region of Ontario, Canada.[1]
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