Prickly-pear

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Michigan Tech student discovers cactus plant in mountains of ... (Detroit Free Press)

A species of cactus new to Michigan has been discovered in the mountains of the Upper Peninsula.

After spotting about six of the cacti, he posed for a selfie next to the flowering discovery. He decided to pause his field surveys on a rainy day in August to track down the cactus. The Huron Mountains look over Lake Superior in Marquette and Baraga county. Biological consultant Ryne Rutherford found a species of cactus new to Michigan in the Huron Mountains. He thought it would be a fragile prickly pear. The glades have granite rock exposed at the surface, and they only occur around Marquette County.

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Cactus species new to the UP discovered growing in the Huron ... (UpperMichigansSource.com)

Michigan Tech University (MTU)'s Ryne Rutherford was tipped off by a resident about the cacti growing in the area. He discovered that it was the eastern prickly ...

has been found growing in the Huron Mountains in Marquette County. “It matches what I’m already finding in this kind of environment,” Rutherford said. (WLUC) - A cactus species never seen in the U.P.

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