| Taxon | Cylindropuntia californica var. parkeri |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Cactaceae |
| Family common name(s) | cactus |
| Genus common name(s) | cholla; cholla cactus; choya; choya cactus |
| Species common name(s) | California cholla; California cholla cactus; California snake cholla; California prickly-pear; California prickly pear; California pricklypear; valley cholla |
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| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | cane cholla, snake cholla are applied to multiple Cylindropuntia taxa; brown-spined prickly-pear, brown-spined pricklypear, brownspined pricklypear, brown spined prickly pear are more commonly applied to Opuntia phaeacantha |
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| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Opuntia parryi Engelm. var. parryi; Opuntia californica (Torr. & A. Gray) Coville var. parkeri (J.M. Coult.) Pinkava; Opuntia echinocarpa var. parkeri J.M. Coult.; Opuntia bernardina Parish |
