Species Information

Kingdom: Plantae
  Phylum: Anthophyta
    Class: Dicotyledoneae
      Order: Caryophyllales
        Family: Cactaceae
          Genus: Escobaria
            Species: villardii

Villard's Pincushion Cactus - Escobaria villardii

Villard's Pincushion Cactus

Image courtesy of New Mexico Rare Plants

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Species Extent (New Mexico)

General Description

Stems solitary, growing in clumps, or commonly branched to form small dense clusters, the individual stems mostly 2-4 cm thick and to 15 cm long; tubercles on mature stems with upper surface bearing a groove; spines about 20-50 per areole, majority slender and bristle-like to about 10 mm long and spreading, typically white, yellowish or pale brownish and dark at tip, fading to gray, approximately 30 percent of the spines in each areole stouter, thicker, darkly pigmented, and 1-2 cm long; flowers not opening widely, to 2.5 cm wide (usually smaller) and pale yellowish to pinkish or nearly white, usually with midribs darker, stigmas white to pink; fruit elongate, 1.5-2 cm long, green to somewhat reddish; seeds about 1 mm long, kidney-shaped with hilum lateral, pitted, brown. Flowers in April.

Status

Global Rank: G2Q

State Rank: S2

State Status: E

Federal Status:

USFS Status: R3 SCC

BLM Status: BLM SENSITIVE

SWAP Status:

NMRP Strategy Status: Strategy Species

Observations in Natural Heritage New Mexico Database

Number of Subpopulations: 7

Number of Mapped Locations: 57

Number of Observations: 70

Observation date range: 02-28-1954 to 03-21-2020

External Links

View More Information about this species at:
  NatureServe Explorer
  New Mexico Rare Plants Website
  Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS)

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