Smallflower Fishhook Cactus
This particularly spiky fishhook cactus (also known as a barrel cactus) is common in the Four Corners region where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. What is interesting about this cactus is that it is a xerophyte - which means it is extremely tough in extreme environments, and can withstand long periods of time with little to no water in the blistering summer heat of the high desert in summer, and the deep freeze of winter. If you look closely, you can see where a scorpion has dug a burrow under this one, high on the plateau north of Moab, Utah.
- Copyright
- Rich Leighton
- Image Size
- 3860x5783 / 21.3MB
- Keywords
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Angiosperms, Blessing's fishhook cactus, Cactaceae, Cacteae, Cactoideae, Canyonlands National Park, Caryophyllales, Eudicots, Grand County, Moab, Moab Desert, Plantae, Sclerocactus, Sclerocactus parviflorus, Utah, Whipple's fishhook cactus, barrel cactus, botany, cacti, cactus, common little barrel cactus, desert, devil’s-claw cactus, evergreen, fishhook cactus, flora, green, nature, perennial, plant, prickle, prickly, sharp, small flower fishook cactus, small-flower fish-hook cactus, smallflower fishhook cactus, spiky, succulent, summer, thorn, thorny, west, western, whipple fishhook cactus, wild, xerophyte
- Contained in galleries
- Cacteae
