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Teddybear Cholla

Cylindropuntia bigelovii

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.January 729, February 868, March 1,156, April 879, May 580, June 427, July 365, August 372, September 472, October 483, November 621, December 773.
United States11,095
California7,981
Arizona6,587
Mexico573
Baja California336
Nevada293
Sonora224
Baja California Sur12
New Mexico2
Mexico1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
Orderpinks, cactuses, and allies · Caryophyllales
Familycacti · Cactaceae
Genuschollas · Cylindropuntia

Sources

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