Opuntia polyacantha

Family: Cactaceae
Common Name: plains pricklypear
Symbol: OPPO
Description: Shrubs, low, 10-25 cm, with - prostrate branches. Stem segments not easily detached, green, elliptic to narrowly to broadly obovate to circular, low tuberculate. Spines terete to flattened, stout to acicular to bristlelike, straight to curling, major spines, reflexed to porrect, yellow-brown to brown to gray, longest 20-150 mm; minor spines (0-)5-11, deflexed, white to white-gray, longest 4-16 mm.