Dudleya linearis is an insular succulent plant known by common name as the San Benitos liveforever.

It is a rosette-forming perennial characterized by its long, flat green leaves on clustered heads and its yellow flowers.

Dudleya linearis is a succulent perennial with long, flat green leaves in clustered rosettes and distinctive yellow flowers from March to May.

The leaf shape is linear or oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, and the tip is acuminate to sharply acute.

[4] In 1903, the botanists Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose created the new genus Dudleya, named in honor of William Russel Dudley, which absorbed most of the Cotyledon species described in California and the Baja California Peninsula under the new genus, creating the combination Dudleya linearis.

[2] West San Benito is home to a small community of fishermen, up to 70 seasonally, who live in a settlement on the east side of the island.

Donkeys had been introduced to West San Benito as pack animals, and brought D. linearis close to extinction.

In 1998, conservation groups and the Mexican government started a program to remove rabbits and goats from the island.

The elimination of the rabbits and goats, along with a El Niño year, led to the rebound of the D. linearis population.