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§1 Plant
Mammillaria heyderi Muehlenpf.
vernacular little nipple cactus — species · Cactaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cactaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Mammillaria
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 47 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 47 counties across 3 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Atascosa 48013
- Bexar 48029
- Brown 48049
- Cameron 48061
- Dimmit 48127
- Duval 48131
- El Paso 48141
- Frio 48163
- Gillespie 48171
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jim Wells 48249
- Kenedy 48261
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- Maverick 48323
- Nueces 48355
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Starr 48427
- Sutton 48435
- Terrell 48443
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Webb 48479
- Willacy 48489
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MAHE2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5384021 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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