Dudleya saxosa (Panamint liveforever)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dudleya saxosa, photographed by Millie Basden — fig. a Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-29 / obs. 192198377

Dudleya saxosa, photographed by Laura Gaudette — fig. c Laura Gaudette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183480781

Dudleya saxosa, photographed by velodrome — fig. d velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180377430

Dudleya saxosa, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda — fig. e Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131207234

Dudleya saxosa, photographed by Henrik Kibak — fig. f Henrik Kibak, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126587778

Dudleya saxosa, photographed by Kyle Nessen — fig. g Kyle Nessen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 119079245

Dudleya saxosa, photographed by Rod — fig. h Rod, CC0 1.0 / obs. 114136317

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Dudleya saxosa, 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
Arizona	ARI	NORTHERN AMERICA
California	CAL
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 269 in flower of 897 examined

46%

70%

73%

56%

Proportion of examined Dudleya saxosa in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	62	2%	0% to 9%
Feb	1	96	1%	0% to 6%
Mar	12	184	7%	4% to 11%
Apr	123	269	46%	40% to 52%
May	94	134	70%	62% to 77%
Jun	33	45	73%	59% to 84%
Jul	5	9	56%	27% to 81%
Aug	0	1	too few examined
Sep	0	14	0%	0% to 22%
Oct	0	19	0%	0% to 17%
Nov	0	13	0%	0% to 23%
Dec	0	51	0%	0% to 7%

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Dudleya saxosa 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. 269 of 897 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. 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 17 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 aloides Fedde
Cotyledon delicata Fedde
Cotyledon lanceolata var. saxosa (M.E.Jones) Jeps.
Cotyledon saxosum M.E.Jones
Dudleya alainae Reiser
Dudleya aloides Rose
Dudleya collomiae Rose ex Morton
Dudleya delicata Rose
Dudleya grandiflora Rose
Dudleya saxosa subsp. saxosa
Echeveria aloides (Rose) A.Berger
Echeveria collomae (Rose) Kearney & Peebles
Echeveria delicata A.Berger
Echeveria grandiflora A.Berger
Echeveria lanceolata var. aloides (Rose) Munz
Echeveria lanceolata var. saxosa (M.E.Jones) Jeps.
Echeveria saxosa A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.

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.

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