UCR - University of California, Riverside Herbarium - Vascular Plants (UCR)
UCR0111828
UCR-BPS-285534
UCR-285534
Opuntia basilaris Engelm. & Bigel.
Cactaceae
A.C. Sanders
41312
2015-03-07
2015-3-7
Jim Malusa
United States, California, Imperial, Chocolate Mountains, side canyon west of north fork of Salvation Wash, US Navy Chocolate Mountains Aerial Gunnery Range
33.28665 -115.29733
0658550E 3684349N
427 meters (1401ft)
Rocky canyon with desert scrub on slopes and sparse microphyll woodland along wash.
Flowering
Scarce succulent subshrub on dry rocky hillside, S-facing slope; fls. fuchsia. One pad tall, several pads from base.