Dudleya cymosa

Dudleya cymosa
Conservation status
	; Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Saxifragales
Family:	Crassulaceae
Genus:	Dudleya
Species:	D. cymosa
Binomial name
	Dudleya cymosa; (Lem.) Britton & Rose
Synonyms
	Echeveria cymosa

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)

Notes

^ USFWS. ssp. marcescens. Species Profile.
^ USFWS. ssp. ovatifolia. Species Profile.

References

Thomson, Paul H. (1993). Dudleya and Hasseanthus handbook. Bonsall, CA: Bonsall Publication. ISBN 978-0-9602066-5-0.
C.Michael Hogan, ed. 2010. Dudleya cymosa. Encyclopedia of Life.

External links

This Crassulaceae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[fwsm-1] USFWS. ssp. marcescens. Species Profile.

[fwso-2] USFWS. ssp. ovatifolia. Species Profile.

[1]

[2]