Index / Search / Escobaria vivipara var. vivipara
§1 Plant
Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum var. vivipara
vernacular spinystar — variety · Cactaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cactaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Escobaria
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 205 counties across 15 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 205 counties across 15 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Adams 08001
- Alamosa 08003
- Arapahoe 08005
- Archuleta 08007
- Baca 08009
- Bent 08011
- Cheyenne 08017
- Custer 08027
- Dolores 08033
- Douglas 08035
- El Paso 08041
- Fremont 08043
- La Plata 08067
- Larimer 08069
- Las Animas 08071
- Lincoln 08073
- Logan 08075
- Montezuma 08083
- Montrose 08085
- Morgan 08087
- Otero 08089
- Phillips 08095
- Prowers 08099
- Pueblo 08101
- San Juan 08111
- San Miguel 08113
- Teller 08119
- Washington 08121
- Weld 08123
- Yuma 08125
Idaho view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Barton 20009
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Comanche 20033
- Decatur 20039
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Gove 20063
- Graham 20065
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Hamilton 20075
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Lane 20101
- Lincoln 20105
- Logan 20109
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Ness 20135
- Ottawa 20143
- Pawnee 20145
- Phillips 20147
- Pratt 20151
- Rawlins 20153
- Rush 20165
- Russell 20167
- Saline 20169
- Scott 20171
- Seward 20175
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Stevens 20189
- Trego 20195
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 20 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 16 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 3 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Archer 48009
- Bailey 48017
- Brown 48049
- Carson 48065
- Clay 48077
- Coleman 48083
- Crockett 48105
- Dickens 48125
- Foard 48155
- Garza 48169
- Glasscock 48173
- Hale 48189
- Hemphill 48211
- Howard 48227
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jackson 48239
- Kent 48263
- Lubbock 48303
- Lynn 48305
- Midland 48329
- Nolan 48353
- Parmer 48369
- Potter 48375
- Randall 48381
- Runnels 48399
- Sterling 48431
- Stonewall 48433
- Swisher 48437
- Taylor 48441
- Tom Green 48451
- Ward 48475
- Young 48503
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ESVIV ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/11498251 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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