Plant Description:

• Low-growing, large and flattened cacti that bear reddish scale leaves that fall off early; grow in large groups
• Scarlet mallow may grow nearby as both grow in overgrazed and disturbed sites
• Long spines with tufted bristles
• Noticeable yellow to pinky-orange flowers
• Found at Stop 2

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-Sourced from Budd's Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, 1979 and
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, 1995.
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