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Few-flower liveforever

Dudleya pauciflora

Few-flower liveforever
Photo: (c) Sula Vanderplank, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0

Few-flower liveforever is a small, clump-forming succulent from high mountain rocks in Baja California, Mexico, with tight rosettes and red-marked yellow flowers. It needs sharp drainage, bright light and little water.

Family
Crassulaceae (Stonecrop family)
Grows as
Succulent
Light
Full sun, Bright indirect
Water
Water deeply only when the soil is fully dry, and much less in winter.
Soil
Fast-draining gritty cactus or succulent mix.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost when dry, protect from hard freeze.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Mexico (Baja California)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Dudleya pauciflora is a species of succulent plant in the stonecrop family known by the common name few-flower liveforever. It is characterized by its small crowded rosettes of narrow leaves and its colorful inflorescence with red-yellow flowers. Found growing on rocky outcrops and cliffs in the high elevation mountains of the Sierra de San Pedro Martir and the Sierra de San Borja, it is endemic to the state of Baja California, Mexico.

Where it grows

Dudleya pauciflora occurs at high elevations in the Sierra San Pedro Mártir and the Sierra de San Borja, in Baja California. Occurrences of D. pauciflora can be found from 1,250 m (4,100 ft) to the peak of the San Pedro Mártir, the Picacho del Diablo, at up to 3,025 m (9,925 ft). 240 km (150 mi) to the south-southeast, in the Sierra de San Borja, this species is found on the highest peak in the range, the Cerro la Sandia.

Other Dudleya plants

Abrams' liveforever · San Bernardino Mountains liveforever · Limestone dudleya · Dudleya cymosa subsp. costatifolia · Abrams' liveforever · Vizcaino liveforever · White-flowered liveforever · Todos Santos liveforever · Anthony's Liveforever · Arizona Chalk Dudleya · Tapertip liveforever · Blochman's liveforever

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dudleya pauciflora 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.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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