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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Cacti
  7. Prickly Pears
  8. Opuntia stricta

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Opuntia stricta

Opuntia stricta

Includes
2 native 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Shell Mound Pricklypear native
  • Beach Prickly Pear present
  • Erect Pricklypear native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native Opuntia stricta All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Erect Pricklypear Opuntia dillenii caterpillars 9 bees 6 hosts 1 food 11 flowers 27
  • Shell Mound Pricklypear Opuntia stricta caterpillars 7 bees 4 hosts 1 food 50 flowers 22

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