Homalocephala texensis(Hopffer) Britton & Rose

Horse Crippler Cactus

WFO wfo-0001289423 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Homalocephala texensis, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. a Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203465324
Homalocephala texensis, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. b Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198698843
Homalocephala texensis, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. c Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203124714
Homalocephala texensis, photographed by Nick Loveland
fig. d Nick Loveland, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198946085
Homalocephala texensis, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. e Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197063936
Homalocephala texensis, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. f Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197613260
Homalocephala texensis, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. g Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196146352
Homalocephala texensis, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. h Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196072337

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Flowering n = 427 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 427 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 7 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.

  • Echinocactus courantianus Lem. ex Labour.
  • Echinocactus lindheimeri Engelm. & A.Gray
  • Echinocactus platycephalus Muehlenpf.
  • Echinocactus texensis Hopffer
  • Echinocactus texensis var. gourgensii Cels ex Labour.
  • Echinocactus texensis var. longispinus Schelle
  • Homalocephala texensis var. gourgensii (Cels ex Labour.) Y.Itô

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.