Ray's Thought for the Day - Dern Cactus

Yepper. The dern cactus are aggravating to many, maybe. They are the only plant family, Cactaceae, generally lacking type specimens, aggravating. Which means the world's most annoying botanists do cactus synonomy, aggravating. They are spiny and will stick you in the hiney, aggravating. You can't weed around them for the same reason, aggravating. They rob other plants, like grass, of resources, aggravating if you are a grass or a grass entremanure, aggravating. Yet there they are, the cacti, aggravating.

This is Opuntia marcrorhiza in flower. Also, known as stumpy cactus, this alleged species never gets over three pads high, usually less.