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Desert savior

Echeveria strictiflora

Desert savior
Photo: Alison Northup, CC BY 4.0

Echeveria strictiflora, the desert savior, is a small rosette succulent from southwestern Texas and northeast Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert. It grows best with bright light, well-drained soil and water that rises in the warm season and falls in winter.

Family
Crassulaceae (Stonecrop family)
Grows as
Succulent
Light
Full sun, Bright indirect
Water
Water deeply when the soil is fully dry, more in the warm growing season and very little in winter.
Soil
Fast-draining cactus or succulent mix with added grit.
Temperature
15–30 °C; protect below 5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Safety
Not toxic to cats or dogs (ASPCA).
Native range
S. Texas to NE. Mexico
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Echeveria strictiflora, the desert savior, is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae, native to southwestern Texas and to the Chihuahuan Desert of northeast Mexico. Its range consists of several scattered populations, rather than a contiguous range.

How to grow it

Benefits from scant water during the cooler winter months and higher levels of water during the warmer growing season.

Other Echeveria plants

Molded Wax · Baby Echeveria · Echeveria atropurpurea · Echeveria cante · Coral Echeveria · Echeveria chihuahuaensis · Mexican Giant · Painted Lady · Echeveria desmetiana · Mexican Snowball · Echeveria gibbiflora · Echeveria halbingeri

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Echeveria strictiflora 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.

Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.

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