Taxon: Opuntia macrorhiza Engelm.

Species on the following lists:

• CITES Appendix II
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Common names:

• western prickly-pear   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• knölrotsopuntia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family.
• Britton, N. L. & J. N. Rose. 1937. The Cactaceae, descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family.
• CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Opuntia macrorhiza.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Opuntia macrorhiza.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Opuntia macrorhiza.

Check other web resources for Opuntia macrorhiza Engelm.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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