Index / Search / Cylindropuntia leptocaulis
§1 Plant
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis (DC.) F.M. Knuth
vernacular Christmas cactus — species · Cactaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cactaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Cylindropuntia
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 108 counties across 4 states/territories§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 108 counties across 4 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 76 N ▾
- Archer 48009
- Armstrong 48011
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brooks 48047
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Cameron 48061
- Clay 48077
- Coleman 48083
- Comal 48091
- Cottle 48101
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Crosby 48107
- Culberson 48109
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dickens 48125
- El Paso 48141
- Frio 48163
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Hardeman 48197
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hood 48221
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jefferson 48245
- Johnson 48251
- Karnes 48255
- King 48269
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- Knox 48275
- La Salle 48283
- Lampasas 48281
- Live Oak 48297
- Llano 48299
- Lubbock 48303
- Maverick 48323
- McLennan 48309
- Milam 48331
- Mitchell 48335
- Motley 48345
- Nolan 48353
- Nueces 48355
- Oldham 48359
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Parker 48367
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reeves 48389
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Starr 48427
- Swisher 48437
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Throckmorton 48447
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Victoria 48469
- Walker 48471
- Webb 48479
- Wilson 48493
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CYLE8 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7282605 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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