Xerophyte

Habit

It is a densely cespitose cactus species, with numerous short, upright heads that can form clumps to 30 cm in diameter.

Seeds

1 mm long, tuberculate.

Roots

Tuberous.

Note

Marshall placed Echinocereus floresiiSN|8685]]SN|8685]] in the synonymy of Echinocereus bristoliiSN|8681]]SN|21864]].

Flowers

Bright pink 5 cm long, 7 cm in expansion when fully open occurring down the sides of the plant. Ovary and tube densely spinose. Stigma lobes green. Self sterile.

Blooming Season

Late spring.

Spines

Many flexible more or less appressed.

Stem

Slender, short, mostly erect, cylindrical, tapered toward the tips, often 25 cm tall, and 4 cm in diameter partially hidden by the many short dense spines.

Fruits

Subglobose, reddish green with white pulp.

Areoles

Small at first woolly, becoming naked 5-8 mm apart on the same rib.