Echinocereus coccineus

Echinocereus coccineus is a species of Echinocereus. It's type locality is about Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Background
Usually densely cespitose, often forming large mounds a meter in diameter, containing sometimes 3 simple stems, these 2 dm. high or less, 3 to 5 cm. in diameter; ribs 8 to 11, somewhat tubercled ; radial spines acicular, 8 to 1 2, 1 to 2 cm. long, usually white; central spines several, longer and stouter than the radials, usually yellowish or whitish but in some specimens reddish or blackish; flowers crimson, 5 to 7 cm long; perianth-segments broad, obtuse or retuse; areoles on flower and ovary felted and bearing short white bristly spines. Distributed in New Mexico and Arizona to Utah and Colorado.

Varieties/Subspecies
E. c. arizonicus Arizona (Arizona hedgehog cactus)

E. c. coccineus (scarlet hedgehog cactus)

E. c. gurneyi (Gurney's hedgehog cactus)

E. c. paucispinus (scarlet hedgehog cactus)

E. c. rosei