Dudleya cymosa(Lem.) Britton & Rose

Canyon liveforever

WFO wfo-0000657675 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Dudleya cymosa, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. a Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 200048873
Dudleya cymosa, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. b James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199874670
Dudleya cymosa, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. c James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 247831822
Dudleya cymosa, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. d James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199835268
Dudleya cymosa, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. e James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199835418
Dudleya cymosa, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. f Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200048851
Dudleya cymosa, photographed by James M. Maley
fig. g James M. Maley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202344078

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 681 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 681 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 47 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cotyledon angustiflora Fedde
  • Cotyledon caespitosa var. paniculata Jeps.
  • Cotyledon californica Baker
  • Cotyledon cymosa (Lem.) Baker
  • Cotyledon gigantea Fedde
  • Cotyledon humilis Fedde
  • Cotyledon laxa (Lindl.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex W.H.Brewer & S.Watson
  • Cotyledon laxa var. cymosa (Baker) Jeps.
  • Cotyledon laxa var. nevadensis (S.Watson) Jeps.
  • Cotyledon laxa var. paniculata (Jeps.) Jeps.
  • Cotyledon nevadensis S.Watson
  • Cotyledon ovatifolia Fedde
  • Cotyledon plattiana Jeps.
  • Cotyledon purpusii (K.Schum.) G.Nicholson
  • Cotyledon purpusii K.Schum.
  • Cotyledon sheldonii Fedde
  • Dudleya agourensis (K.M.Nakai) P.H.Thomson
  • Dudleya angustiflora Rose
  • Dudleya crebrifolia (K.M.Nakai & Verity) P.H.Thomson
  • Dudleya cymosa subsp. cymosa
  • Dudleya gigantea Rose
  • Dudleya goldmanii Rose
  • Dudleya humilis Rose
  • Dudleya laxa (Lindl.) Britton & Rose

and 23 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.