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This blog is a permanent work in progress intended to serve as an inventory of the plant species documented on our properties in the Christmas Mountains by me, my sisters Andrea and Julia, and niece Gabrielle. The identifications are to the best of our current knowledge, and subject to change as we learn. As we get better photos, I'll upgrade them. All photos are taken by us in the Christmas Mountains, unless stated otherwise. All nomenclatures are based on Dr. Michael Powell's 2018 "Flowering Plants of Trans-Pecos and adjacent areas."

Cactaceae


Blind Prickly Pear - Opuntia rufida
                                                                          
Big Bend Purplish Prickly Pear - Opuntia parva
Big Bend Purplish Prickly Pear - Opuntia parva

Comanche Prickly Pear - Opuntia camanchica

Common Button Cactus - Epithelantha micromeris

Boke's Button Cactus - Epithelantha micromeris bokei

Desert Christmas Cactus - Cylindropuntia leptocaulis

Desert Night-blooming Cereus - Peniocereus greggii
Clumped Dog Cholla - Corynopuntia aggeria
Eagle-claw Cactus - Echinocactus horizonthalonius
Eagle-Claw Cactus - Glandulicactus wrightii

Englemann's Prickly Pear - Opuntia englemannii
Giant Fishhook Cactus - Ferocactus hamatacanthus
Golf Ball Cactus - Mammillaria lasiacantha
Heyder's Pincushion - Mammillaria heyderi
Horse-crippler - Echinocactus texensis
Living Rock Cactus - Ariocarpus fissuratus

Pincushion Cactus - Escobaria dasyacantha
Rusty Hedgehog Cactus - Echinocereus russanthus
Sea-Urchin Cactus - Coryphantha echinus

Strawberry Cactus - Echinocereus enneacanthus

Texas Claret Cup Cactus - Echinocereus coccineus paucispinus

Texas Claret Cup - Echinocereus paucispinus

Texas Rainbow Cactus - Echinocereus dasyacanthus

Tree Cholla - Cylindropuntia imbricata

Varicolor Cob Cactis - Escobaria varicolor


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