Sclerocactus cloveraeK.D.Heil & J.M.Porter

WFO wfo-0001246606 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sclerocactus cloverae, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. a Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-27 / obs. 160149150
Sclerocactus cloverae, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. b Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160151974
Sclerocactus cloverae, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. c Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160152618
Sclerocactus cloverae, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. d Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154980267
Sclerocactus cloverae, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. e Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154987583
Sclerocactus cloverae, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. f Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154987167
Sclerocactus cloverae, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. g Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154980461
Sclerocactus cloverae, photographed by Cecelia Alexander
fig. h Cecelia Alexander, CC0 1.0 / obs. 154566946

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Sclerocactus cloverae is native: Colorado, New Mexico ColoradoNew Mexico
Native distribution of Sclerocactus cloverae, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Colorado COL NORTHERN AMERICA
New Mexico NWM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 6 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.

  • Pediocactus cloverae (K.D.Heil & J.M.Porter) Halda
  • Pediocactus cloverae subsp. brackii (K.D.Heil & J.M.Porter) Halda
  • Sclerocactus cloverae subsp. brackii K.D.Heil & J.M.Porter
  • Sclerocactus whipplei subsp. cloverae (K.D.Heil & J.M.Porter) Hochstätter
  • Sclerocactus whipplei subvar. aztecia Hochstätter
  • Sclerocactus whipplei var. reevesii Castetter, P.Pierce & K.H.Schwer.

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.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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