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§1 Plant
Opuntia engelmannii Salm-Dyck ex Engelm.
vernacular cactus apple — species · Cactaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cactaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Opuntia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 94 counties across 6 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 94 counties across 6 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 63 N ▾
- Atascosa 48013
- Austin 48015
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Burnet 48053
- Cameron 48061
- Coleman 48083
- Comal 48091
- Coryell 48099
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- DeWitt 48123
- El Paso 48141
- Ellis 48139
- Fayette 48149
- Frio 48163
- Galveston 48167
- Gillespie 48171
- Gonzales 48177
- Hamilton 48193
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Karnes 48255
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Lampasas 48281
- Lee 48287
- Limestone 48293
- Live Oak 48297
- Llano 48299
- Matagorda 48321
- McMullen 48311
- Milam 48331
- Navarro 48349
- Nueces 48355
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Real 48385
- Reeves 48389
- Robertson 48395
- San Patricio 48409
- Smith 48423
- Starr 48427
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Webb 48479
- Willacy 48489
- Williamson 48491
- Wilson 48493
- Zapata 48505
- Zavala 48507
Utah view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/OPEN3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8014872 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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