Life … Plants Vascular Plants Dicots Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies Cacti Prickly Pears Plains Pricklypear Mojave Prickly-pear variety Mojave Prickly-pear Opuntia polyacantha erinacea Supports All 14 native animalssupported in the US Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Angeles Striped Sweat Bee, Prickly-pear Angled-Mason, Tripartite Sweat Bee, Pacific Coast Small Carpenter 14 Key traits Layer Shrubs Plant type Perennial Shrub From USDA PLANTS. Close