Cactaceae
Ladyfinger cactus
Echinocereus pentalophus
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Echinocereus
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Ladyfinger cactus
Synonyms
- Cereus leptacanthus DC. ex Pfeiff.
- Cereus leptacanthus DC. ex Salm-Dyck
- Cereus pentalophus DC.
- Cereus pentalophus var. radicans DC.
- Cereus pentalophus var. simplex DC.
- Cereus pentalophus var. subarticulatus DC.
- Cereus propinquus Salm-Dyck ex Otto
- Cereus propinquus var. subarticulatus Pfeiff. ex C.F.Först.
- Echinocereus leptacanthus (DC. ex Salm-Dyck) K.Schum.
- Echinocereus procumbens var. longispinus Hirscht
- Echinocereus runyonii Orcutt
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0); popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.