Semi-woody, profusely branched, erect perennial; stems 20-100 cm long; leaves ovate, lanceolate, or elliptic, 2-3 times longer than wide, 8-12 mm long, grayish green because of light pubescence especially on lower surface; flowers rose-pink, 12-25 mm...
Gray-green shrub to 1 m tall, much-branched; leaves short-petiolate or sessile, elliptic-ovate to narrowly oblong, about 1-2 cm long, grayish with a fine scurf; plants unisexual, the flowers in small clusters in more or less profuse terminal panicles...
Escobaria orcuttii is distinguished by the relatively even and short length of the central spines, which seem to grade into the radial spines of similar length. This gives the plants something of a "groomed" appearance. Stems solitary, few in a cl...
Prostrate annual herb with several primary stems extending radially from a slender taproot; stems to 15 cm long, terete, strigulose with white recurved hairs 0.1-0.2 mm long, internodes 0.6-2.2 cm long; leaves opposite, stipules interpetiolar, separa...
Stem consisting of loosely attached flattened joints up to 8 cm in length by 2-3 cm in width, the joints highly varied in size and shape, bearing areoles with dense clumps of yellowish glochids; rhizomes and often larger roots also often bearing gloc...
Root large, fleshy, round at the top, tapering; stems 2 m long, pale gray-green, slender, 1-2.5 cm in diameter, strongly angled by the 4-6 low, broad ribs; areoles narrowly oval about 4 mm long, white to gray woolly, bearing approximately 12 gray to ...
Herbaceous perennial, 4-11 dm tall, with 1-several stems; leaves glabrous, opposite or whorled, broadly lanceolate to ovate, coarsely serrate, thin, 6-8 cm long; inflorescence a loose, few-branched, terminal panicle, somewhat glandular pubescent; flo...
