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Opuntia humifusa (pricklypear; devil's-tongue)

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Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

Opuntia humifusa, commonly known as the devil's-tongue, eastern prickly pear or Indian fig, is a cactus native to parts of eastern North America.
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Infraspecies

Opuntia humifusa var. ammophila (devil's-tongue)
Opuntia humifusa var. austrina (common pricklypear)
Opuntia humifusa var. humifusa

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Shrub

Protected Areas

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Atlantic Coastal Plain Longleaf Sandhill Scrub United States (South Carolina, North Carolina)
Atlantic Coastal Plain Subxeric Sandy Longleaf Pine - Pond Pine Ecotonal Woodland United States (North Carolina, South Carolina)
Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric Longleaf Pine Sand Woodland United States (North Carolina, South Carolina)
Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric Sandhill Scrub United States (North Carolina, South Carolina)
Atlantic Inner Coastal Plain Yellow Sand Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (South Carolina, Georgia)
Florida Peninsula Xeric Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Florida)
Georgia Dry Longleaf Pine - Scrub Oak Sand Woodland United States (Georgia)
Georgia Xeric Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Georgia)
Longleaf Pine / Turkey Oak Woodland United States (Florida, Alabama)
South Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Longleaf Pine Sandhill United States (Florida)
South Atlantic Dry Longleaf Pine Sandhill United States (South Carolina, Georgia)
South Carolina Central Longleaf Woodland United States (Georgia, South Carolina)
Western Florida Panhandle Xeric Lowland Sandhill Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Florida)

Predators

Dactylopius confusus (california cochineal scale)[2]
Diaspis echinocacti (cactus scale)[2]
Gopherus polyphemus ((Florida) Gopher Tortoise)[3]
Sylvilagus floridanus (Eastern Cottontail)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 3Patterns of Folivory and Seed Ingestion by Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) in a Southeastern Pine Savanna, Roger D. Birkhead, Craig Guyer and Sharon M. Hermann, Am. Midl. Nat. 154:143-151
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0