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Dudleya cymosa subsp. costatifolia

Dudleya abramsii subsp. costatifolia

Also called Pierpoint Springs Dudleya

A small, clumping succulent that forms dense rosettes and bright yellow flowers, native only to one limestone outcrop in Tulare County, California. It is easy to grow from offsets and seed in a sunny, well-drained spot.

Family
Crassulaceae (Stonecrop family)
Grows as
Succulent
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry out fully between waterings, and avoid wetting the rosettes.
Soil
Fast-draining gritty mix, such as cactus or succulent mix with added grit or pumice.
Temperature
10–35 °C; protect from frost and prolonged freezing
How easy
Easy

About

Dudleya cymosa subsp. costatifolia, known commonly as the Pierpoint Springs dudleya or the Pierpoint Springs liveforever, is a species of succulent plant in the family Crassulaceae, narrowly endemic to a locality in Tulare County, California, United States. It is a clumping plant with small rosettes and bright yellow flowers, resembling alpine cushion plants.

How to grow it

In cultivation, plants continue to produce densely packed rosettes. It can be easily grown from offsets and seed.

Where it grows

This species is narrowly distributed to the type locality in Tulare County, on a xeric southwest-facing pre-Cretaceous limestone outcrop. The single population occurs on private land within the Sequoia National Forest, and is on relatively inaccessible habitat. Nearby limestone outcrops do not bear this species, but Dudleya cymosa subsp. cymosa. It occurs in association with Hesperoyucca whipplei, Cercocarpus montanus, and Boechera sparsiflora.

Other Dudleya plants

Abrams' liveforever · San Bernardino Mountains liveforever · Limestone dudleya · Abrams' liveforever · Vizcaino liveforever · White-flowered liveforever · Todos Santos liveforever · Anthony's Liveforever · Arizona Chalk Dudleya · Tapertip liveforever · Blochman's liveforever · Short Eaf Dudleya

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dudleya cymosa subsp. costatifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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