Appearance
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.Naming
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'' and ''ovatifolia'' are federally listed as threatened species of the United States.
Habitat
''Dudleya cymosa'' is the larval host plant for the Sonoran blue butterfly, ''Philotes sonorensis''References:
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