small-flowered fishhook cactus
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The small-flowered fishhook cactus (Sclerocactus parviflorus) is a species of cactus native to the Colorado Plateau. The name "fishhook cactus" is generally applied to hook-spined species within the Cactaceae family, particularly those in the genera Sclerocactus and Mammillaria, and sometimes Ferocactus. Some of these hooked spines are strong enough to have been used as actual fishing hooks by indigenous peoples in the Americas. The Sclerocactus genus, to which the small-flowered fishhook cactus belongs, is characterized by species with at least one hooked central spine.1
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