Echinocereus stramineus(Engelm.) F.Seitz

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WFO wfo-0000661541 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Echinocereus stramineus, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. a Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-16 / obs. 199913093
Echinocereus stramineus, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. b Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199871617
Echinocereus stramineus, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. c Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199874016
Echinocereus stramineus, photographed by alymharmon
fig. d alymharmon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199705884
Echinocereus stramineus, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. e Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199879468
Echinocereus stramineus, photographed by henrya
fig. f henrya, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196891930
Echinocereus stramineus, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. g Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199537131
Echinocereus stramineus, photographed by José Gerardo Velasco
fig. h José Gerardo Velasco, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194577232

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 111 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 111 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cereus conglomeratus (C.F.Först.) A.Berger
  • Cereus stramineus Engelm.
  • Echinocereus conglomeratus Mathsson
  • Echinocereus conglomeratus C.F.Först. ex K.Schum.
  • Echinocereus enneacanthus var. conglomeratus (C.F.Först. ex K.Schum.) L.D.Benson
  • Echinocereus enneacanthus var. stramineus (Engelm.) L.D.Benson
  • Echinocereus stramineus (Engelm.) Rümpler
  • Echinocereus stramineus subsp. conglomeratus (C.F.Först. ex K.Schum.) W.Blum
  • Echinocereus stramineus subsp. stramineus
  • Echinocereus stramineus var. conglomeratus (C.F.Först.) Bravo
  • Echinocereus stramineus var. stramineus

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.