Dudleya cymosa facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Dudleya cymosa |
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Dudleya
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cymosa
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Echeveria cymosa |
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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.
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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:
- Dudleya cymosa subsp. costafolia - Pierpoint Springs dudleya
- Dudleya cymosa subsp. crebrifolia - San Gabriel River dudleya
- Dudleya cymosa subsp. marcescens - marcescent dudleya
- Dudleya cymosa. subsp. ovatifolia - Santa Monica Mountains dudleya
The subspecies marcescens and ovatifolia 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)
See also
In Spanish: Dudleya cymosa para niños
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