"When I was a kid, there were huge hedgehogs in Whitewater Canyon," Clark Moorten recalled one hot afternoon at the garden. We were discussing his favorite cactus genus, Echinocereus. "They spread out ...

SILVER CITY, N.M.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today changed the designation of a rare New Mexico cactus from “endangered” to the less-dire “threatened,” reflecting its progress toward recovery ...

The hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii) is a lovely small native cactus that has spectacular blooms. It comes in a number of varieties in the wild. The flowers are usually hot pink, 2-3 inches ...

April can be an especially colorful time in the desert, as many of our native cacti unfurl their short-lived but spectacular flowers during these few weeks. Among the very showiest are the hedgehog ...

Many cactus species don’t bloom until late spring or summer — but eye-catching, magenta-pink flowers of the hedgehog cactus are showing up this week in some desert areas around Tucson. “Locally, the ...

Most scientists today agree that North America has four distinct desert regions: the Great Basin, the Mojave, the Sonoran and the Chihuahuan. The subjective delineation of one from another is based ...

While walking along the Coalton Trail through Boulder County Open Space I noticed some small cacti in flower. They were less than 3 inches tall and had cylindrical stems that were partially buried in ...