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White Column (Escobaria albicolumnaria)

  • Global Rank: G2 - Imperiled
  • Legal Status: N/A
  • Family: Cactaceae
  • State: TX
  • Nature Serve ID: 155324
  • Lifeform: Shrub
  • Categories of Interest: Cacti/Succulents
  • Date Inducted in National Collection:
Description:

Where is White Column (Escobaria albicolumnaria) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

White Column can be found in Texas

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Conservation Actions

Nature Serve Biotics
  • 05/02/2017

A Chihuahuan Desert endemic with a widespread but scattered range (west Texas and Chihuahua, Mexico). Threatened by collectors; entire populations have been extirpated.

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Nomenclature
Taxon Escobaria albicolumnaria
Authority (Boed.) Lüthy
Family Cactaceae
CPC Number 14254
ITIS 511467
USDA ESAL
Duration Perennial
Common Names White Column | Orcutt pincushion cactus | Sneed's pincushion cactus | white column cory cactus
Associated Scientific Names Coryphantha albicolumnaria | Escobaria sneedii ssp. orcuttii | Coryphantha organensis | Escobaria albicolumnaria | Escobaria orcuttii | Mammillaria albicolumnaria | Coryphantha orcuttii
Distribution
State Rank
State State Rank
Texas S2S3
Ecological Relationships

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Bees
Sweat bees Halictidae Not Specified Link

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