Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium (ASU:Plants)
ASU0305669
1cd11d77-075b-4650-bb7c-c82222f1054d
Cylindropuntia bigelovii (Engelm.) Knuth
Cactaceae
Marc A. Baker
18506
2016-03-14
Michelle Cloud-Hughes
United States, California, Imperial, Chocolate Mountains,18 km (11 miles) NE of Niland, 2.8 km SSW of Beal Well along Niland-Blythe Road, 62 km NNE of El Centro, 1.1 km north of the summit of Lion Head Mountain.
33.3182 -115.3491 +-100m.
351 meters
1153 ft
Floodplain, and adjacent hillsides of outcroppings, rocks, and gravel.
Locally abundant shrub, this individual is 1.5 m tall. Near the type locality of Opuntia munzii C. B. Wolf; buds collected in field during meiosis of microgametogenesis, n=33/2.