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§1 Plant
Echinocactus texensis Hopffer
vernacular horse crippler — species · Cactaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cactaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Echinocactus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 37 counties across 3 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 37 counties across 3 states/territories.
New Mexico view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Bexar 48029
- Brewster 48043
- Cameron 48061
- Comal 48091
- Cooke 48097
- Coryell 48099
- DeWitt 48123
- Dimmit 48127
- Duval 48131
- Foard 48155
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Howard 48227
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- Maverick 48323
- Nueces 48355
- Pecos 48371
- Refugio 48391
- Starr 48427
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Val Verde 48465
- Ward 48475
- Webb 48479
- Williamson 48491
- Young 48503
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ECTE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3084092 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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