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'''''Dudleya cymosa''''' is a [[succulent plant]] known by the common name ''' |
'''''Dudleya cymosa''''' is a [[succulent plant]] known by the common name '''Canyon live-forever'''. 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 [[inflorescence|cyme inflorescence]]. The plant is found in rocky areas in the low elevation mountains of California and southern Oregon. Some subspecies are considered threatened locally. |
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Revision as of 03:40, 28 June 2010
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Dudleya cymosa is a succulent plant known by the common name Canyon live-forever. 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. The plant is found in rocky areas in the low elevation mountains of California and southern Oregon. Some subspecies are considered threatened locally.
Selected 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
Dudleya cymosa is the larval host plant for the Sonoran Blue butterfly, Philotes sonorensis (Lycaenidae)
References
- Thomson, Paul H. (1993). Dudleya and Hasseanthus handbook. Bonsall, CA: Bonsall Publication. ISBN 978-0960206650.
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