Index / Search / Escobaria vivipara
§1 Plant
Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum
vernacular spinystar — species · Cactaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cactaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Escobaria
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 226 counties across 11 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 226 counties across 11 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Adams 08001
- Alamosa 08003
- Arapahoe 08005
- Archuleta 08007
- Baca 08009
- Bent 08011
- Cheyenne 08017
- Custer 08027
- Dolores 08033
- Douglas 08035
- El Paso 08041
- Fremont 08043
- La Plata 08067
- Larimer 08069
- Las Animas 08071
- Lincoln 08073
- Logan 08075
- Montezuma 08083
- Montrose 08085
- Morgan 08087
- Otero 08089
- Phillips 08095
- Prowers 08099
- Pueblo 08101
- San Juan 08111
- San Miguel 08113
- Teller 08119
- Washington 08121
- Weld 08123
- Yuma 08125
Kansas view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Barton 20009
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Comanche 20033
- Decatur 20039
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Gove 20063
- Graham 20065
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Hamilton 20075
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Lane 20101
- Lincoln 20105
- Logan 20109
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Ness 20135
- Ottawa 20143
- Pawnee 20145
- Phillips 20147
- Pratt 20151
- Rawlins 20153
- Rush 20165
- Russell 20167
- Saline 20169
- Scott 20171
- Seward 20175
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Stevens 20189
- Trego 20195
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 20 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Cibola 35006
- Colfax 35007
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lea 35025
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- Luna 35029
- McKinley 35031
- Otero 35035
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Juan 35045
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
North Dakota view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 52 N ▾
- Archer 48009
- Bailey 48017
- Bandera 48019
- Brewster 48043
- Brown 48049
- Carson 48065
- Clay 48077
- Coleman 48083
- Cooke 48097
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Dickens 48125
- El Paso 48141
- Foard 48155
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Glasscock 48173
- Hale 48189
- Hamilton 48193
- Hemphill 48211
- Hood 48221
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Kent 48263
- Kimble 48267
- Lubbock 48303
- Lynn 48305
- Mason 48319
- Midland 48329
- Montague 48337
- Nolan 48353
- Parmer 48369
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reeves 48389
- Runnels 48399
- San Saba 48411
- Sterling 48431
- Stonewall 48433
- Sutton 48435
- Swisher 48437
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Uvalde 48463
- Ward 48475
- Young 48503
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ESVI2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/11498251 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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