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More rapid growth can be achieved by grafting peyote onto mature San Pedro root stock. Cultivated specimens grow considerably faster, sometimes taking less than three years to go from seedling to mature flowering adult. Its habitat is primarily in desert scrub, particularly thorn scrub in Tamaulipas. It is primarily found at elevations of 100 to 1,500 m (330 to 4,920 ft) and exceptionally up to 1,900 m (6,200 ft) in the Chihuahuan desert, but is also present in the more mild climate of Tamaulipas. In Mexico, it grows in the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas in the north to San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas. In the United States, it grows in Southern Texas. williamsii is native to southern North America, mainly distributed in Mexico. Known for its psychoactive properties when ingested, peyote has at least 5,500 years of entheogenic and medicinal use by indigenous North Americans. The flowers are pink, with thigmotactic anthers (like Opuntia). It flowers from March to May, and sometimes as late as September. It is found primarily in the Sierra Madre Occidental, the Chihuahuan Desert and in the states of Nayarit, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and San Luis Potosí among scrub. Peyote is native to Mexico and southwestern Texas. Peyote is a Spanish word derived from the Nahuatl peyōtl ( ), meaning "caterpillar cocoon", from a root peyōni, "to glisten". The peyote ( / p eɪ ˈ oʊ t i/ Lophophora williamsii / l ə ˈ f ɒ f ə r ə w ɪ l i ˈ æ m z i aɪ/) is a small, spineless cactus which contains psychoactive alkaloids, particularly mescaline. Echinocactus williamsii Lemaire ex Salm-Dyck