Index / Search / Opuntia polyacantha var. polyacantha
§1 Plant — variety · Cactaceae
Opuntia polyacantha Haw. var. polyacantha
vernacular hairspine pricklypear
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cactaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Opuntia
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 26 of 56 Montana counties.
- Beaverhead 30001
- Broadwater 30007
- Carbon 30009
- Carter 30011
- Chouteau 30015
- Custer 30017
- Fergus 30027
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Golden Valley 30037
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Madison 30057
- McCone 30055
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Powder River 30075
- Prairie 30079
- Rosebud 30087
- Sheridan 30091
- Stillwater 30095
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Valley 30105
- Yellowstone 30111
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/OPPOP ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7219424 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25
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