Dudleya cymosa subsp. marcescens Moran:
United States (North America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

Historic Range:
U.S.A. (CA)

Comments: Sheer volcanic cliffs and canyon walls in canyons with perennial streams. Usually grows with mosses and lichens in places too steep for soils to form.

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: N2 - Imperiled

Rounded Global Status Rank: T2 - Imperiled

Reasons: Restricted to an unusual microhabitat and known with certainty only from an area about 24 km long in the Santa Monica Mountains of southern California. There are 7 known occurrences. The total number of individuals is estimated to be less than 1000. Threats include unsupervised rock climbing and boulder hopping.

Current Listing Status Summary

Status: Threatened
Date Listed: 01/29/1997
Lead Region:   California/Nevada Region (Region 8) 
Where Listed:


Population detail:

Listing status: T

For most current information and documents related to the conservation status and management of Dudleya cymosa marcescens, see its USFWS Species Profile

Comments: Major threats to Dudleya cymosa ssp. marcescens are rock climbing and rappelling, other recreational activities (such as damage from informal climbing, boulder hopping, and substrate removal at gathering sites), and residential development (half of the occurrences are on private lands) (USFWS 2009). Other threats are conversion of private land to agriculture, horticultural collection, and wildfires which tend to burn much more widely and intensely than Dudleya cymosa ssp. marcescens is adapted to (USFWS 2009). Climate change is also listed as a possible threat but the extent of this threat is not yet known (USFWS 2009).