Aeonium haworthii

Haworth's aeonium

Family: Crassulaceae · Type: shrub · Not Native

Haworth's aeonium is a naturalized shrub found in southern California coastal areas, including sea cliffs and dunes, at elevations below 100 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces delicate flowers approximately one centimeter wide with lanceolate white or pale yellow petals. Growing as a dense, hemispheric shrub reaching approximately 7 decimeters tall with stems 3 to 10 millimeters in diameter, it forms open rosettes up to 10 centimeters across. Its leaves are obovate, 3 to 6 centimeters long and 2 to 5 millimeters thick, arranged in loose, spreading clusters. The plant typically persists from cultivation and creates distinctive rounded, succulent-like forms in coastal landscapes.

Habitat: Sea cliffs, dunes, or persisting from cultivation

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: < 100 m

Bioregions: c&amps SCo

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