Sclerocactus mesae-verdae, San Juan County, US-NM, US

Sclerocactus mesae-verdae (Boissev. & C.Davidson) L.D.Benson

Mesa Verde Cactus, Mesa Verde Fishhook Cactus, Mesa Verde fish-hook cactus

No habitat climate 93 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Sclerocactus mesae-verdae, the Mesa Verde cactus or Mesa Verde fishhook cactus, is a species of cactus native to northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado. It is known only from Montezuma County (Colorado) and San Juan County. Much of the New Mexico part of the range lies inside land controlled by the Navajo Nation. The Colorado populations lie close to Mesa Verde National Park.

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About the genus · Sclerocactus

Sclerocactus is a genus of cacti. It comprises about 15 species, the exact number depending on the authority. These species are xerophytic. More on Wikipedia ›

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Family

Cactaceae

Described by

(Boissev. & C.Davidson) L.D.Benson

Native to

Colorado, New Mexico

Wild records

109 in range· 15 open

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by Cactaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 109 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeColorado, New Mexico

Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker36.747, -108.59 · in the densest population, 109 records (100% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 109 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 15 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 8 km away. 1 record outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 109 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 109 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) Martin Purdy, some rights reserved (CC BY) (8).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Sclerocactus mesae-verdae, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Ecology and Population Dynamics ofSclerocactus Mesae-Verdae(Boissev. & C. Davidson) L.D. Benson

Janet J. Coles, Karin Decker, Tamara Naumann (2012) · Western North American Naturalist

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