PLANTS Profile for Escobaria vivipara var. vivipara (spinystar)

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PLANTS Profile

Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum var. vivipara
spinystar

Symbol:

ESVIV

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Cactaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Shrub

Native Status:

L48		N
CAN		N

Photo of Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum var. vivipara

Coryphantha vivipara

©W.L. Wagner. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of Systematic Biology, Botany. Usage Requirements. Any use of copyrighted images requires permission of the copyright holder.

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Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum var. vivipara

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Synonyms:
Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum var. vivipara

COMIM	Coryphantha missouriensis (Sweet) Britton & Rose var. marstonii (Clover) L.D. Benson
COVI9	Coryphantha vivipara (Nutt.) Britton & Rose
ESMIM	Escobaria missouriensis (Sweet) D.R. Hunt var. marstonii (Clover) D.R. Hunt	Marston's foxtail cactus
MAVI8	Mammillaria vivipara (Nutt.) Haw.
MAVIB	Mammillaria vivipara (Nutt.) Haw. var. borealis Engelm.

Distribution:
Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum var. vivipara


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USA (AZ, CO, ID, KS, MN, MT, ND, NE, NM, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WY), CAN (AB, MB, SK)

Related Taxa:
Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum var. vivipara

View 51 genera in Cactaceae, 17 species in Escobaria, 9 varieties in Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum

Classification:
Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum var. vivipara

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Caryophyllidae
Order	Caryophyllales
Family	Cactaceae – Cactus family
Genus	Escobaria Britton & Rose – foxtail cactus
Species	Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum – spinystar
Variety	Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum var. vivipara – spinystar

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum var. vivipara

The related entities and synonyms italicized and indented below are listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

Arizona:
Coryphantha missouriensis var. marstonii
		Salvage restricted
Minnesota:
Escobaria vivipara
ball cactus		Endangered

More Accounts and Images:
Escobaria vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum var. vivipara

View species account and distribution map from Flora of North America (FNA).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 528100.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View species account and photographs from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

Time Generated: 05/23/2013 09:14 AM CDT