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§1 Plant

Ferocactus hamatacanthus (Muehlenpf.) Britton & Rose

vernacular turk's head — species · Cactaceae

USDA
FEHA2
GBIF
7281740 syn.
Rank
species
turk's head (Ferocactus hamatacanthus)
Platephotograph · eliphalethCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 18 counties across 2 states/territories
Legend Native · 18 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 18 counties across 2 states/territories.

New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 17 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/FEHA2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/7281740 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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