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Family	Scientific Name	Common Name	Habitat	Distribution	Image
Cactaceae	Acanthocereus	Triangle Cactus, Barbed-wire Cactus, Dildo-cactus
Cactaceae	Acanthocereus tetragonus	Triangle Cactus, Barbed-wire Cactus, Dildo-cactus, Dildo, Organo	Coastal berms, coastal rock barrens, maritime hammocks, rockland hammocks, shell mounds (FL); coastal shrublands, thickets (TX).	S. FL; West Indies; s. TX south through Mexico and Central America to n. South America.
Cactaceae	Ancistrocactus
Cactaceae	Ancistrocactus scheeri	Root Cactus, Fishhook Cactus	Thorn scrub.	C. and s. TX south to ne. Mexico (NLE, TAM).
Cactaceae	Astrophytum	Star Cactus
Cactaceae	Astrophytum asterias	Star-peyote, Star Cactus, Sea-Urchin Cactus	Grasslands, shrublands, thornscrub on gravelly clays or loams over the Catahoula and Frio formations (Carr 2016).	S. TX (Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr and Zapata counties); Mexico (NLE and TAM).
Cactaceae	Cactaceae	Cactus Family
Cactaceae	Cereus
Cactaceae	Cereus hexagonus	Giant Club Cactus, Lady-of-the-night Cactus	Disturbed areas in Florida scrub and s. Texas scrub.	Native of n. South America and s. West Indies.
Cactaceae	Consolea	Semaphore Cactus
Cactaceae	Consolea corallicola	Florida Semaphore Cactus	Rockland hammocks and buttonwood woodlands, usually ecotones, coastal berms.	Endemic to s. FL (Miami-Dade and Monroe counties).
Cactaceae	Coryphantha	Pincushion Cactus
Cactaceae	Coryphantha sulcata	Grooved Cory Cactus, Pineapple Cactus, Nipple Cactus, Finger Cactus	Grasslands, shrublands, oak savannas.	Endemic to TX.
Cactaceae	Cylindropuntia	Cholla
Cactaceae	Cylindropuntia davisii	Davis's Cholla	Grasslands, oak-juniper-mesquite woodlands.	Sc. OK, w. OK, n. NM south to c. TX, w. TX, s. NM, and (?) Mexico.
Cactaceae	Cylindropuntia imbricata var. imbricata	Tree Cholla	Dry gravelly, sandy, or rocky areas.	KS, CO, and se. UT south through c. and w. OK, c. and w. TX, NM, and AZ to Mexico.
Cactaceae	Cylindropuntia kleiniae	Klein's Cholla, Tasajillo	Rocky soils of grasslands.	C. TX and NM south to Mexico.
Cactaceae	Cylindropuntia leptocaulis	Christmas Cholla, Tasajillo, Pencil Cactus, Turkeypear, Aguijillo, Garrambullo	Clay or alluvial soils.	Sc. OK west to s. CA, south to se., s., and w. TX, NM, AZ, and Mexico.
Cactaceae	Echinocereus	Hedgehog Cactus
Cactaceae	Echinocereus berlandieri	Berlandier's Hedgehog Cactus, Berlandier's Alicoche	Shady Coastal Plain thickets.	S. TX and TAM.
Cactaceae	Echinocereus enneacanthus ssp. carnosus	Strawberry Cactus, Pitaya	Oak savannas, thornscrub.	S. and w. TX south to Mexico (TAM, COA, NLE).
Cactaceae	Echinocereus fitchii ssp. albertii	Black Lace Cactus	Grasslands, thorn shrublands and mesquite woodlands, typically with saline soils.	Endemic to s. TX.
Cactaceae	Echinocereus fitchii ssp. fitchii		Thornscrub.	S. TX.
Cactaceae	Echinocereus papillosus	Yellow-flowered Alicoche	Open prairies, mesquital, thornscrub.	S. TX and ne. Mexico (NLE, SLP, TAM).
Cactaceae	Echinocereus pentalophus var. procumbens	Alicoche, Ladyfinger Cactus	Thornscrub, alluvial areas.	S. TX and Mexico (COA, GTO, HGO, JAL, NLE, QRO, SLP, TAM, VER, ZAC).
Cactaceae	Echinocereus poselgeri	Dahlia Hedgehog Cactus, Sacasil, Wilcox Cactus, Rattail Cactus	Alluvial areas, thornscrub on gravelly or sandy hillsides.	S. TX and n. Mexico (COA, DGO, NLE, TAM).
Cactaceae	Echinocereus reichenbachii ssp. baileyi			Apparently endemic to the Arbuckle Mountains and Wichita Mountains.
Cactaceae	Echinocereus reichenbachii ssp. caespitosus	Lace Hedgehog Cactus	Prairies, other gravelly, rocky, or sandy areas, especially calcareous.	TX and OK.
Cactaceae	Epiphyllum	Climbing Cactus
Cactaceae	Epiphyllum hookeri ssp. hookeri	Orchid Cactus	Hammocks and disturbed suburban areas, from horticultural use.	Native of Mexico, Central America, and n. South America.
Cactaceae	Ferocactus	Barrel Cactus, Biznaga
Cactaceae	Ferocactus hamatacanthus var. sinuatus	Texas Barrel Cactus, Tamaulipan Barrel Cactus, Rio Grande Barrel	Tamaulipan thornscrub.	S. TX, TAM, NLE.
Cactaceae	Grusonia	Club-Cholla
Cactaceae	Grusonia schottii	Dog Cholla, Clavellina, Devil Cactus	Tamaulipan thornscrub (gravelly hillsides) and alluvial areas.	C and w. TX south through s. TX to Mexico (CHH, COA, DGO, NLE, SLP, TAM)).
Cactaceae	Hamatocactus	Twisted-rib Cactus
Cactaceae	Hamatocactus bicolor	Twisted-rib Cactus	Grasslands, shrublands, mesquital.	C. and s. TX, COA, NLE, TAM.
Cactaceae	Harrisia	Apple-cactus
Cactaceae	Harrisia aboriginum	Yellow Prickly-apple, Aboriginal Prickly-apple, Prickly Apple-cactus	Coastal hammocks and shell mounds.	Endemic to w. peninsular FL.
Cactaceae	Harrisia fragrans	Fragrant Prickly-apple, Fragrant Apple-cactus	Florida scrub, shell middens, limestone.	Endemic to e. peninsular FL.
Cactaceae	Harrisia simpsonii	Simpson’s Prickly-apple, Simpson’s Apple-cactus, Queen-of-the-night	Coastal berms, rockland hammocks, shell mounds.	Endemic to peninsular FL.
Cactaceae	Homalocephala
Cactaceae	Homalocephala texensis	Devil's-head, Horse-crippler, Manca Caballo, Devil's Pincushion, Cany Cactus, Viznaga	Oak woodlands, desert scrub, grasslands.	TX, s. OK, and se. NM south into Mexico (CHH, COA, DGO, NLE, TAM, ZAC).
Cactaceae	Lophophora	Peyote
Cactaceae	Lophophora williamsii	Peyote, Mescal Buttons, Divine Cactus	Scrub over limestone or calcareous sediments.	S. and w. TX, n. Mexico.
Cactaceae	Mammillaria	Pinchushion Cactus, Globe Cactus, Chilita
Cactaceae	Mammillaria heyderi var. hemisphaerica	Coastal Nipple Cactus	Tamaulipan thornscrub, alluvial areas.	S. TX, TAM, NLE, COA.
Cactaceae	Mammillaria heyderi var. heyderi	Little Nipple Cactus, Biznaga de Chilitos, Little Chilis	Tamaulipan thornscrub, alluvial areas.	OK, NM, and AZ south through TX to Mexico.
Cactaceae	Mammillaria prolifera var. texana	Texas Nipple Cactus, Hair-covered Cactus, Grape Cactus	Oak-juniper woodlands, thornscrub.	S. Tx, COA, SLP, NLE, TAM.
Cactaceae	Mammillaria sphaerica	Mammilaria	Usually in shade.	S. TX southwards to n. Mexico (NLE, SLP, TAM).
Cactaceae	Opuntia	Prickly-pear Cactus
Cactaceae	Opuntia abjecta	Jumping Cactus	Coastal rock barrens, rockland hammocks.	Endemic to FL keys (Monroe County).
Cactaceae	Opuntia atrispina		Grasslands, scrub, limestone hills.	Sw. and se. TX (Bee County).
Cactaceae	Opuntia austrina	Southern Prickly Pear, Florida Prickly-pear	Florida scrub, longleaf pine sandhills, and transitional areas between Florida scrub, longleaf pine sandhills and pine flatwoods, dunes, shell middens, in deep, sandy soils.	Apparently endemic to FL occurring throughout most of the state but most common in the peninsula and mostly absent from the Panhandle.
Cactaceae	Opuntia cespitosa	Common Eastern Prickly-pear	Limestone and chalk outcrops, dolomite outcrops, glades, sandy or blackland prairies, upland hardwood or mixed hardwood-pine forests in dry, clay soils.	This is the most common species (a tetraploid, 2n = 44) in the eastern United States; it has traditionally been considered conspecific with O. humifusa.
Cactaceae	Opuntia cochenillifera	Cochineal Nopal Cactus, Tunita	Disturbed areas, persistent and escaping from cultivation; native to central America and Mexico.	Occasionally growing as an escape in n. FL (and throughout FL peninsula), where it is commonly cultivated. Reported for s. FL in Broward County (Lange, Bradley, & Sadle [in prep.]).
Cactaceae	Opuntia cymochila
Cactaceae	Opuntia drummondii	Dune Prickly-pear, Sand-bur Prickly-pear, Little Prickly-pear, Creeping Cactus	Dunes on barrier islands, less commonly inland on river-associated sands and on granite outcrops.	This species is found most commonly along coastal dune systems and Gulf Coast barrier islands but also inland along riverine sands, and rarely on granite outcrops (often associated with O. mesacantha ssp. mesacantha)
Cactaceae	Opuntia engelmannii var. engelmannii	Engelmann’s Prickly-pear	Disturbed areas, planted as an ornamental and perhaps persisting or weakly spreading.	Opuntia engelmannii is a large, shrubby hexaploid species (2n=66) with a primary distribution in the western United States and Mexico.
Cactaceae	Opuntia engelmannii var. linguiformis	Cow’s-tongue Prickly-pear, Lengua de Vaca	Planted as an ornamental in our area (and not clearly known from wild populations in its putative region of origin), rarely persisting or perhaps spreading.	The type is from San Antonio, TX, and Britton & Rose (1937) state that "according to Dr. Griffiths, it is occasionally found wild near San Antonio".
Cactaceae	Opuntia ficus-indica	Tuna Cactus, Indian-fig, Mission Pricklypear	Cultivated and rarely escaped.	Native of Mexico.
Cactaceae	Opuntia humifusa	Spineless Eastern Prickly Pear	Slate outcrops, sandy soils, upland hardwood forests or mixed pine-hardwood forests in dry, clay or silty soils.	O. humifusa is restricted primarily to the Appalachian Mountains and mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain, but also occurs in the inner Coastal Plain of c. and nc. MS (Attala, Choctaw, Grenada, Webster cos.).
Cactaceae	Opuntia keyensis		Coastal strand, occasionally in water-logged saline soils of mangroves or on margins of mangrove swamps or hammocks.	Endemic to s. FL.
Cactaceae	Opuntia leucotricha		Disturbed hammocks.	Native of Mexico.
Cactaceae	Opuntia lindheimeri	Texas Prickly-pear	Disturbed areas, where persistent or spreading from cultivation (Majure et al. 2011), but also apparently early introduced by native Americans or early settlers on coastal dunes and sand barrens on barrier islands.	Native of sc. United States south into Mexico. Although found along the coast in NC (New Hanover Co., where it grows with O. drummondii), SC, and VA (Henrico, Isle of Wight, and Hanover cos. [Wright et al. 2023]), the origin(s) of those populations is unknown. The native range of O. engelmannii var. lindheimeri is the western US (although occurring in coastal w LA) and Mexico, so it seems unlikely that the coastal Atlantic populations are native; however, certain populations along the SC coast can be found in quite isolated locations (P. McMillan, pers. comm.). Small (1933) reported O. cantabrigiensis Lynch from dunes near Beaufort, NC, based on a fragmentary 1930 collection accompanied by a photograph. Similar plants were apparently seen near Beaufort by Engelmann, prior to 1856. Benson (1982) refers the collection tentatively to O. lindheimeri Engelmann var. cuija (Griffiths & Hare) L.D. Benson, treated in K as O. engelmannii Salm-Dyck ex Engelmann var. cuija Griffiths & Hare, a native of Mexico. Benson (1982) also stated, however, that it could also be var. lindheimeri (primarily of TX and Mexico), or, indeed, O. tuna (Linnaeus) P. Miller (native to the West Indies). Benson (1982) failed to relocate the plant in the field in 1956, but stated there was "insufficient time for a thorough search." Unless relocated, the identity of the plant will probably remain a mystery, as well as whether it represents a native species, an established population from aboriginal use, or a more recent introduction or adventive.
Cactaceae	Opuntia macrorhiza	Tuberous-rooted Prickly-pear, Plains Prickly-pear	Sandy or silty prairies, glades, limestone rock outcrops.	Mostly of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, w. LA, AR, MO into the Midwestern states.
Cactaceae	Opuntia mesacantha ssp. lata	Prickly-pear	Coastal dunes and scrub, sandhills, borders of pine flatwoods, scrub, coastal islands (FL, GA, SC), riverine sands.	Ssp. lata is restricted to the outer Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and the FL peninsula: NC south to s. FL, west to s. MS.
Cactaceae	Opuntia mesacantha ssp. mesacantha	Longspine Eastern Prickly-pear	Granite outcrops, coastal dunes and scrub, longleaf pine sandhills, pine forests in sandy soils, Gulf Coast barrier Islands (AL, FL panhandle, MS), riverine sands.	S. NJ south to sc. GA, c. AL, c. and n. MS, and se. TN; disjunct in FL Panhandle, s. AL, s. MS; disjunct in w. LA. Throughout the southern Piedmont, Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain, but absent from the FL peninsula forming a disjunction between the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, as in O. drummondii, with which this subspecies is often associated, at least along the coast and in certain Piedmont populations on granite. See McAvoy (2021) for details of DE occurrence.
Cactaceae	Opuntia monacantha	Common Prickly-pear	Disturbed areas, sometimes persistent or escaping from horticultural use.	Native of South America (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay). Although O. monacantha can form trees to several meters high, those found in FL typically are smaller, erect shrubs – maybe a result of environmental conditions.
Cactaceae	Opuntia nemoralis	Prickly-pear	Saline prairies, shale barrens, longleaf pine sandhills.	S. MO, AR, and LA west to se. TX.
Cactaceae	Opuntia ochrocentra	Bullsuckers	Rockland hammocks, coastal rock barrens.	Endemic to lower FL keys (Monroe County).
Cactaceae	Opuntia phaeacantha	Tulip Prickly-pear	Limestone glades, westwards more general in rocky, sandy, or gravelly soils of open or lightly wooded areas.	KS to CA south to TX and Mexico; disjunct in c. TN.
Cactaceae	Opuntia polyacantha var. polyacantha	Hair-spine Prickly-pear, Hunger Cactus, Starvation Cactus	Grasslands.	SK and AB south to sw. LA, sw. TX, NM, and Mexico.
Cactaceae	Opuntia stricta var. dillenii	Coastal Prickly Pear, Shell Midden Prickly-pear, Yaaxpakan	Coastal dunes and coastal scrub, occasionally in water-logged saline soils of mangroves.	Var. dillenii is most common in the Caribbean region but makes its way into the se. US along both the Atlantic (north to e. SC) and Gulf coasts (of the FL peninsula and panhandle and coastal AL).
Cactaceae	Opuntia stricta var. stricta	Coastal Prickly Pear, Shell Midden Prickly-pear	Coastal dunes and coastal scrub, shell middens in salt marshes of the Gulf Coast, occasionally in water-logged saline soils of mangroves.	Se. NC (reports from VA are based on a misidentification) south to s. FL, west to e. LA.
Cactaceae	Opuntia zebrina		Dunes, coastal scrub, coastal strand, occasionally in rockland or maritime hammocks.	Endemic to s. FL (Monroe County).
Cactaceae	Pelecyphora
Cactaceae	Pelecyphora emskoetteriana		Gravelly hillsides.	S. TX south to ne. Mexico.
Cactaceae	Pelecyphora macromeris ssp. runyonii	Runyon's Cory Cactus, Nipple Beehive Cactus, Dumpling Cactus	Thornscrub.	S. TX, w. TX, and NM south to Mexico.
Cactaceae	Pelecyphora missouriensis	Ball Cactus, Beehive Cactus, Missouri Pincushion Cactus	Grasslands.	ND west to MT, south to se. and c. TX, nw. NM, and n. AZ.
Cactaceae	Pelecyphora vivipara	Spinystar	Dry, sandy or rocky prairies.	MB, SK, and AB south to OK, c. TX, w. TX, NM, AZ, s. CA and Mexico (CHH, COA, NLE, SON, ZAC).
Cactaceae	Pereskia	Pereskia
Cactaceae	Pereskia aculeata	Pereskia, Lemon Vine, Blade Apple Cactus, Barbados Gooseberry, West Indian Gooseberry	Disturbed shell middens, hammocks, other disturbed areas.	Native of Neotropics.
Cactaceae	Pereskia grandifolia	Rose Cactus	Disturbed areas.	Native of South America.
Cactaceae	Pilosocereus	Tree Cactus
Cactaceae	Pilosocereus millspaughii	Antillean Tree Cactus	Rockland hammocks.	S. FL (Key Largo); West Indies (s. Bahamas, c. Cuba, Hispaniola).
Cactaceae	Pilosocereus robinii	Key Tree Cactus	Rockland hammocks.	S. FL (Monroe County keys); e. Cuba, n. Bahamas.
Cactaceae	Rhipsalis	Mistletoe Cactus, Pencil Cactus
Cactaceae	Rhipsalis baccifera ssp. baccifera	Mistletoe Cactus, Pencil Cactus	Coastal berms, tidal swamps.	S. FL; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Cactaceae	Rhipsalis cereuscula	Coral Cactus	Disturbed hammocks, epiphytic.	Native of South America.
Cactaceae	Selenicereus	Moonlight Cactus
Cactaceae	Selenicereus grandiflorus	Queen-of-the-night	Disturbed hammocks.	Native of the West Indies, Mexico, and Central America.
Cactaceae	Selenicereus pteranthus	Princess-of-the-night, Snake Cactus	Disturbed hammocks.	Native of the West Indies and Mexico.
Cactaceae	Selenicereus spinulosus	Vinelike Moonlight Cactus	Subtropical woodlands.	S. TX (Cameron County) south to s. MX.
Cactaceae	Selenicereus undatus	Nightblooming Cereus, Nightblooming Cactus, Dragonfruit, White-fleshed Pitahaya	Suburban woodlands, disturbed sites.	Native of tropical America.