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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

Which CPC Partners conserve White Column (Escobaria albicolumnaria)?

  • Desert Botanical Garden

    Not Sponsored
    Assigned 06/09/17
    • CPC's Plant Sponsorship Program provides long term stewardship of rare plants in our National Collection. We are so grateful for all our donors who have made the Plant Sponsorship Program so successful. We are in the process of acknowledging all our wonderful plant sponsorship donors on our website. This is a work in progress and will be updated regularly.

    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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