Dudleya cespitosa

Coast dudleya

Family: Crassulaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Coast dudleya is a California native perennial found in southern Northern Coast Ranges, Central Coast, Southern Coast, and northern Channel Islands in coastal rock and sand habitats at elevations generally below 100 meters. Flowering from April to August, this succulent produces bright yellow flowers in clusters with 3 to 15 blooms on tall peduncles 10 to 60 centimeters high. Growing in rosettes 8 to 32 centimeters wide with exposed stems from older plants, it develops multiple clusters of succulent leaves. Its evergreen leaves are lance-oblong, 15 to 30 in number, measuring 5 to 20 centimeters long and 1 to 2 centimeters wide, with bases that may have a distinctive purple-red coloration. The plant forms loose rosettes with thick, glaucous leaves that have acute tips and vary significantly in shape and appearance.

Habitat: Common. Coastal, rock, sand

Bloom period: Apr-Aug

Elevation: generally < 100 m

Bioregions: s NCo, CCo, SCo, n ChI.

California counties: San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Benito, Sonoma, Humboldt, Kern, Lake, San Diego, Solano, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Contra Costa

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.