Index / Search / Opuntia phaeacantha
§1 Plant
Opuntia phaeacantha Engelm.
vernacular tulip pricklypear — 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
· 117 counties across 8 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 117 counties across 8 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Cibola 35006
- Colfax 35007
- Curry 35009
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Harding 35021
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lea 35025
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- Luna 35029
- McKinley 35031
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- 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
Oklahoma view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 53 N ▾
- Bailey 48017
- Bosque 48035
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Burnet 48053
- Carson 48065
- Comanche 48093
- Coryell 48099
- Culberson 48109
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Denton 48121
- Dickens 48125
- Donley 48129
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Floyd 48153
- Garza 48169
- Gray 48179
- Hall 48191
- Hidalgo 48215
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Kendall 48259
- Kent 48263
- Kerr 48265
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Lampasas 48281
- Lubbock 48303
- Maverick 48323
- McLennan 48309
- Nolan 48353
- Oldham 48359
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Reeves 48389
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Wichita 48485
- Williamson 48491
- Young 48503
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/OPPH ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5384038 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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