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§1 Plant

Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa (Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow) F.M. Knuth var. acanthocarpa

vernacular buckhorn cholla — variety · Cactaceae

USDA
CYACA2
GBIF
7282888 syn.
Rank
variety
buckhorn cholla (Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa var. acanthocarpa)
Platephotograph · Rob KlotzCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Shrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Cactaceae Juss.
Genus
Cylindropuntia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 4 counties across 3 states/territories
Legend Native · 4 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.

§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 4 counties across 3 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 1 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CYACA2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7282888 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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