Dudleya cymosa is a succulent plant known by the common name Canyon live-forever. The plant is found in rocky areas in the low elevations of California and southern Oregon mountains.

Description

It is a distinctive plant sending up erect red-orange stems from a gray-green basal rosette. The small yellowish-red thimble-shaped flowers top the stems in a cyme inflorescence. Some subspecies are considered threatened locally.

Subspecies

Selected Dudleya cymosa subspecies:

• D. c. subsp. costafolia - Pierpoint Springs dudleya
• D. c. subsp. crebrifolia - San Gabriel River dudleya
• D. c. subsp. marcescens - marcescent dudleya
• D. c. subsp. ovatifolia - Santa Monica Mountains dudleya

The subspecies marcescens^[1] and ovatifolia^[2] are federally listed as threatened species of the United States.

Butterfly habitat

Dudleya cymosa is the larval host plant for the Sonoran Blue butterfly, Philotes sonorensis (Lycaenidae)

Basal rosette, erect stems, and inflorescences.

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