Epithelantha micromeris is a button cactus in the genus Epithelantha, found in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and northeast Mexico. It is characterized by its white-grey spines growing on a globular shaped stem. The Button Cactus has 0.2 inch long (5 mm), 0.16 inch wide (4 mm) pale pink flowers that appear in May-Aug at the apex of the plant. They only partly open, as they barely stick out above the wool an spines at the top of the plant. They are followed by thin red fruit, 0.3 to 0.5 inch long. It is a fuzzy white ball with 20–40 slender, straight, slightly overlooking spines per areole. It blooms from February to April. The flowers of this plant are the smallest of any cactus species in the Trans-Pecos. Habitat and Ecology: Widespread in desert grasslands and woodlands It grows on crevices, coarse gravel, cliffs, sedimentary calcareous rock (rarely igneous) substrates on hills and ridges in the Chihuahuan Desert. These cacti are normally found in small clusters because the seeds fall nearby.

PLANT WILL BE SHIPPED BARE ROOT, WITH SOIL AND POT SEPERATELY.