Official Colorado Cactus?
A close up photo of the kingcup cactus. A Douglas County Girl Scout troop is seeking official state status for the cactus, which is common in many Colorado counties. (Charlie McDonald, U.S. Forest Service)
I wonder what it means to have official state status for a cactus in Colorado? I would support the troop’s efforts regardless, because who doesn’t want more state-statused-officially-cactus plants? And it’s a pretty cactus plant too so that helps. Always with the pretty plants and the official statuses. Nobody ever approves the ugly plants for state statuses. Or even for county statuses. Why is that?
