Dudleya cymosa

Echeveria cymosa Dudleya cymosa is a species complex of evergreen and deciduous succulent plants in the family Crassulaceae known by the common name: canyon liveforever.

[1][2] It is a loosely defined polyphyletic[3] species with a diverse number of subspecies, varying highly in morphology, distribution, and habitat.

[4] 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.

Dudleya cymosa is the larval host plant for the Sonoran blue butterfly, Philotes sonorensis (Lycaenidae)

Basal rosette, erect stems, and inflorescences