Dudleya abramsii (Abrams' liveforever)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dudleya abramsii, photographed by Trevor Harding — fig. a Trevor Harding, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-08 / obs. 196032147

Dudleya abramsii, photographed by James M. Maley — fig. b James M. Maley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191251849

Dudleya abramsii, photographed by Millie Basden — fig. e Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132476676

Dudleya abramsii, photographed by Nora Bales — fig. f Nora Bales, CC0 1.0 / obs. 119362872

Dudleya abramsii, photographed by joergmlpts — fig. g joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83152895

Dudleya abramsii, photographed by Matt Berger — fig. h Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51540258

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Dudleya abramsii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
California	CAL	NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northwest	MXN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 166 in flower of 557 examined

10%

58%

84%

60%

Proportion of examined Dudleya abramsii in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	16	0%	0% to 19%
Feb	0	46	0%	0% to 8%
Mar	0	58	0%	0% to 6%
Apr	15	149	10%	6% to 16%
May	102	177	58%	50% to 65%
Jun	43	51	84%	72% to 92%
Jul	6	10	60%	31% to 83%
Aug	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
Sep	0	4	too few examined
Oct	0	3	too few examined
Nov	0	16	0%	0% to 19%
Dec	0	22	0%	0% to 15%

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Dudleya abramsii observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 166 of 557 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 16 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 abramsii Fedde
Cotyledon laxa var. setchellii Jeps.
Cotyledon setchellii Fedde
Dudleya affinis (K.M.Nakai) P.H.Thomson
Dudleya bettinae Hoover
Dudleya costafolia (Bartel & Shevock) P.H.Thomson
Dudleya cymosa subsp. costafolia Bartel & Shevock
Dudleya cymosa subsp. setchellii (Jeps.) Moran
Dudleya murina Eastw.
Dudleya paniculata (Jeps.) Britton & Rose
Dudleya setchellii (Jeps.) Britton & Rose
Dudleya tenuis Rose
Echeveria abramsii (Rose) A.Berger
Echeveria laxa var. setchellii (Jeps.) Jeps.
Echeveria setchellii (Jeps.) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.
Echeveria tenuis A.Berger

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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