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Your search found 6 taxa in the family Cactaceae, Prickly Pear family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Eastern Prickly Pear
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) Opuntia mesacantha ssp. mesacantha FAMILY: Cactaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Opuntia humifusa FAMILY: Cactaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Opuntia compressa 132-01-001 FAMILY: Cactaceae
Habitat: Granite outcrops, coastal dunes and scrub, longleaf pine sandhills, pine forests in sandy soils, Gulf Coast barrier Islands (AL, FL panhandle, MS), riverine sands
Common in NC-SC Coastal Plain (uncommon to rare elsewhere), endemic
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Eastern Prickly Pear
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Opuntia cespitosa FAMILY: Cactaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Opuntia humifusa FAMILY: Cactaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Opuntia compressa 132-01-001? FAMILY: Cactaceae
Habitat: Limestone and chalk outcrops, dolomite outcrops, glades, sandy or blackland prairies, upland hardwood or mixed hardwood-pine forests in dry, clay soils
Native to Georgia
Common Name: Eastern Prickly Pear
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Opuntia humifusa FAMILY: Cactaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Opuntia humifusa FAMILY: Cactaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Opuntia compressa 132-01-001? FAMILY: Cactaceae
Habitat: Slate outcrops, sandy soils, upland hardwood forests or mixed pine-hardwood forests in dry, clay or silty soils
Native north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Dune Prickly Pear, Dune Devil-joint, Devils-joint Cactus, Little Prickly-pear
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Opuntia drummondii FAMILY: Cactaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) PLANTS National Database: Opuntia pusilla FAMILY: Cactaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Opuntia drummondii 132-01-002 FAMILY: Cactaceae
Habitat: Dunes on barrier islands, less commonly inland on river-associated sands and on granite outcrops
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coastal Prickly Pear, Shell Midden Prickly-pear, Yaaxpakan, Erect Prickly-pear
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Opuntia stricta var. dillenii FAMILY: Cactaceae
(?) PLANTS National Database: Opuntia dillenii FAMILY: Cactaceae
Habitat: Coastal dunes and coastal scrub, occasionally in water-logged saline soils of mangroves
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coastal Prickly Pear, Shell Midden Prickly-pear, Erect Prickly-pear
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) Opuntia stricta var. stricta FAMILY: Cactaceae
(?) PLANTS National Database: Opuntia stricta FAMILY: Cactaceae
Habitat: Coastal dunes and coastal scrub, shell middens in salt marshes of the Gulf Coast, occasionally in water-logged saline soils of mangroves
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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