Echeveria strictiflora A.Gray

Desert savior (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Saxifragales > Crassulaceae > Echeveria

Characteristics

Caudex mostly simple, 0-2 × 0.5-1.5 cm. Leaves: rosette 12-25-leaved, 5-15 cm wide; blade pale to grayish green, 3-11 × 1-3 cm × 2-6 mm, apex acute to short-acuminate, broadly channeled adaxially. Inflores-cences of 1(-2) [several] cincinni; floral stems mostly red, 1-4 dm × 2-7 mm; leaves 6-18, ascending, elliptic to lanceolate, 1-5 cm; cincinnus 10-40-flowered, 5-35 cm, flowers mostly crowded on somewhat zigzag axis. Pedicels 0-2 × 1.5-3 mm. Flowers: calyx pink to red; sepals triangular-oblong, largest 7-13 × 2-5 mm, smallest 4-10 × 1-2.5 mm; corolla 11-17 × 6-9 mm, tube 3-5 mm, lobes lanceolate, 3-4 mm wide, apex sharply acute; gynoecium 6-10 mm; styles green, 1.5-3 mm. 2n = 24.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.4
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Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 3-5
Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 21 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 18
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Images

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Distribution

Echeveria strictiflora world distribution map, present in Mexico and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:274067-1
WFO ID wfo-0000660008
COL ID 38F9T
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Synonyms

Echeveria strictiflora Cotyledon strictiflora