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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Cactus/Succulent
Fruit Type: Berry
Size Notes: Up to about 6 feet tall.

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: Yellow
Bloom Time: Feb , Mar , Apr , May , Jun , Jul

Distribution

USA: AL , FL , GA , LA , MS , NC , SC , VA

National Wetland Indicator Status

Region:	AGCP	AK	AW	CB	EMP	GP	HI	MW	NCNE	WMVE
Status:	UPL			UPL	UPL	FACU

This information is derived from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Wetland Plant List, Version 3.1 (Lichvar, R.W. 2013. The National Wetland Plant List: 2013 wetland ratings. Phytoneuron 2013-49: 1-241). Click here for map of regions.

Web Reference

Webref 57 - Atlas of Florida Plants (2020) Institute for Systematic Botany
Webref 38 - Flora of North America (2019) Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
Webref 23 - Southwest Environmental Information Network (2009) SEINet - Arizona Chapter

Research Literature

Reslit 628 - Developing a sterile insect release program for Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg) (Lepidoptera : Pyralidae): Effective overflooding ratios and release-recapture field studies (2005) S. D. Hight, J. E. Carpenter, S. Bloem and K. A. B...
Reslit 683 - Host specificity of Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), an exotic Opuntia-feeding moth, in Florida (1996) D. M. Johnson and P. D. Stiling
Reslit 861 - The Opuntias of Mississippi (2008) L. C. Majure and G. N. Ervin
Reslit 940 - Experimental test of biotic resistance to an invasive herbivore provided by potential plant mutualists (2010) T. E. X. Miller, J. C. Legaspi and B. Legaspi
Reslit 961 - Designing ecosystems in degraded tropical coastal dunes (2008) P. Moreno-Casasola, M. L. Martinez and G. Castillo...
Reslit 1023 - Interaction between ants, extrafloral nectaries and insect herbivores in Neotropical coastal sand dunes: herbivore deterrence by visiting ants increases fruit set in Opuntia stricta (Cactaceae) (1999) P. S. Oliveira, V. Rico-Gray, C. Diaz-Castelazo an...
Reslit 1070 - Control and persistence of native Opuntia on Nevis and St. Kitts 50 years after the introduction of Cactoblastis cactorum (2007) R. W. Pemberton and H. Liu
Reslit 1344 - Effects of changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide on the location of hosts by the moth, Cactoblastis cactorum (1997) G. Stange
Reslit 1345 - The CO2 sense of the moth Cactoblastis cactorum and its probable role in the biological control of the CAM plant Opuntia stricta (1995) G. Stange, J. Monro, S. Stowe and C. B. Osmond
Reslit 1350 - Death and Decline of a Rare Cactus in Florida (2010) P. Stiling

This information was provided by the Florida WIldflower Foundation.
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Additional resources

USDA: Find Opuntia stricta in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Opuntia stricta in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Opuntia stricta