[Hedgehog Cacti: The Genus Echinocereus in the Mountains and Deserts of the American Southwest]

Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus

Echinocereus engelmannii

Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus: Echinocereus engelmannii - Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus: Echinocereus engelmannii

Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus: Echinocereus engelmannii - Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus: Echinocereus engelmannii

Engelmann's hedgehog cactus observed at Indian Gorge, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, CA......March 22, 2005.

Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus: Echinocereus engelmannii - Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus: Echinocereus engelmannii - Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus: Echinocereus engelmannii

Engelmann's hedgehog cactus blooming in the western wash of Glorietta Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park........March 28, 2010.

Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus: Echinocereus engelmannii - Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus: Echinocereus engelmannii

Engelmann's hedgehog cactus observed at Morteros Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park........March 27, 2010.

Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus: Echinocereus engelmannii - ngelmann's Hedgehog Cactus: Echinocereus engelmannii

Engelmann's hedgehog cactus as seen on granitic rocks in Plum Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park........March 23, 2011 (left) and March 28, 2006 (right).

Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus: Echinocereus engelmannii

Engelmann's hedgehog cactus as seen along old US Highway 66 at Boundary Rock in southern Arizona...........February 22, 2013.

Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus: Echinocereus engelmannii

What may be Engelmann's hedgehog cactus as seen about 4 miles north of the Laughlin Highway in the Spirit Mountains of Nevada...........February 21, 2013.

Barrel Cactus, California Barrel Cactus: Ferocactus cylindraceus (Synonyms: Echinocactus cylindraceus, Ferocactus acanthodes, Ferocactus cylindraceus var. lecontei, Ferocactus cylindraceus var. cylindraceus) with Hedgehog Cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii)

California barrel cactus blooming with a ring of smaller hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii) around it. Photographed a mile or so up Hornbend Canyon off San Diego County Route S-2, opposite Box Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park........March 26, 2011.

Paul Slichter