Index / Search / Escobaria vivipara var. vivipara
§1 Plant
Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum var. vivipara
vernacular spinystar — variety · Cactaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cactaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Escobaria
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 123 counties across 9 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 123 counties across 9 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 N ▾
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 ↗ 16 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ESVIV ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/11498251 ↗Record version
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