Claret Cup Cactus
This incredibly beautiful (and red!) mound or hedgehog cactus is a rather common sight in the Guadalupe Mountains. In several parts of the range I saw dozens if not dozens of dozens all in bloom. That vivid bright red color made them easy to spot from a distance!
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Angiosperms, Cactaceae, Cactoideae, Caryophyllales, Chihuahuan Desert, Claret-Cup Hedgehog, Claretcup Hedgehog, Core eudicots, Crimson Hedgehog, Culberson County, Curve-Spined Claret Cup, E. triglochidiatus, Echinocereus, Echinocereus triglochidiatus, Eudicots, Guadalupe Mountains, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, King's Crown Cactus, Mojave Hedgehog, Mojave Kingcup Cactus, Mojave mound cactus, Mound Hedgehog-Cactus, Pachycereeae, Plantae, Spineless Hedgehog, Strawberry Cactus., Texas, arid, botany, cacti, cactus, claret, claret cup, claret cup cactus, claretcup, color, colorful, crimson, cup, desert, dicot, flora, green, heat, hedgehog cactus, hurt, kingcup cactus, mound cactus, national park, nature, pain, painful, perennial, pitaya, pitaya roja, plant, poke, prickle, prickly, red, sharp, shrub, southwest, spike, spiky, spring, succulent, thorn, thorny, west, western, wild
- Contained in galleries
- Pachycereeae, Cactaceae (Cactus Family)
