

Dollar-joint Prickly-pear
Opuntia chlorotica
Opuntia chlorotica Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow is treated as an accepted taxon in Plants of the World Online.1
The current source-backed classification places it in Cactaceae within Opuntia.12
Its recorded native range/source remark is UTA, SOUTHCENTRALUSA, SOUTHWESTERNUSA, MEXICO, NWMOO, MXN, SPAAN, MXNSI, EUROPE, MXECO, MXEHI, SPA_GI; SE. California to SW. Utah and N. Mexico.1
POWO records the plant context as succulent shrub, desert or dry shrubland.1
This is a source-populated draft intended for later Kaktus Doktoru editorial rewriting; care advice and morphology should be reviewed before publication.
References
- Plants of the World Online. "Opuntia chlorotica Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:136454-1 ↩
- GBIF Secretariat. "Opuntia chlorotica". GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://www.gbif.org/species/5384111 ↩
Measured
Draining Mix
SE. California to SW. Utah and N. Mexico
Automatically collected source range/note: UTA, SOUTH_CENTRAL_USA, SOUTHWESTERN_USA, MEXICO, NWM_OO, MXN, SPA_AN, MXN_SI, EUROPE, MXE_CO, MXE_HI, SPA_GI; SE. California to SW. Utah and N. Mexico.