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Grassland Prickly Pear

Grassland Prickly Pear

Opuntia cymochila

Opuntia cymochila 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 SOUTHCENTRALUSA, NWMOO, NORTHERNAMERICA, COL, TEXOO, NORTHCENTRALUSA, KANOO, NEBOO, COLOO, KAN, NWM, TEX; C. U.S.A..1

POWO records the plant context as succulent subshrub, subtropical.1

This is a source-populated draft intended for later Kaktus Doktoru editorial rewriting; care advice and morphology should be reviewed before publication.

References

  1. Plants of the World Online. "Opuntia cymochila Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:136506-1 ↩
  2. GBIF Secretariat. "Opuntia cymochila". GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://www.gbif.org/species/5384112 ↩
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C. U.S.A.

Automatically collected source range/note: SOUTH_CENTRAL_USA, NWM_OO, NORTHERN_AMERICA, COL, TEX_OO, NORTH_CENTRAL_USA, KAN_OO, NEB_OO, COL_OO, KAN, NWM, TEX; C. U.S.A..