 Za$G i8931  1992-05-07 T6/  OPUNTIA  g=     +x MONROE caryophyllales v]% $   i^ ANTON A. REZNICEK  V< Cactaceae  tWH3 DRY, OPEN SAND BARRENS BEHIND CEMETERY; FREQUENT CLONES IN UA LOCAL AREA"WITH DWARFED RHUS COPALLINA, CAREX MUHLENBERGII, SOROBOLUS CRYPTANDRUS, DWARF SASSAFRAS, LESPEDEZA CAPITATA AND HEDEOMA HISPIDA."   -83.6444 s_  [The situation regarding the Opuntia associated with th6is cemetery is complex. Along the fence on the south and west side of the cemetery is a large, relatively erect, very spiny Opuntia (now much reduced in numbers by cemetery maintenance). This was probably planted and, if not some other species, is at least a sbiny strain of O. humifusa that is unlike the plants of the Great Lakes region. However, behind the cemetery, beyond the rows of planted conifers, and on the extension of the dry, sandy ridge on which the cemetery was built, there is a small, seemingly natural sand barren which has a number of clones, some quite large, of perfectly typical, prostrate, essentially thornless O. humifusa - along with typical, native associates. Slide in packet. This is the site Allison Cusick knew about for some years, and is apparently quite comparable to a dozen or more natural occurrences of Opuntia in the Oak Openings of Ohio, immediately to the south. It seems quite possible, perhaps likely, that O. humifusa was native here, and perhaps the cemetery keepers in the past "supplemented" the occurrence with larger and showier plants 4long the fence.] [See also MICH1355178, Opuntia cymochila] R^  cespitosa @>j@v   J UNITED STATES Lucas C. Majurehf%oA  Michigan y(8%1   hA opuntia cespitosa  41.84288 q :&?    ]4*s Raf.   25a  sw 1/4 sec. 30 t7s r7e, s side tunnicliffe rd., ca 5 mi. se of petersburg.  1355177 vB%  
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