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Dudleya calcicola

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Saxifragales
Family:	Crassulaceae
Genus:	Dudleya
Species:	D. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its The Saxifragales are an order of Dicotyledon Flowering plants In the APG II classification system it includes the following families The Crassulaceae, or orpine family, is a family of Dicotyledons They store water in their Succulent leaves Dudleya is a Genus of succulent perennials consisting of about 45 species in southwest North America. calcicola

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Dudleya calcicola
Bartel & Shevock

Dudleya calcicola is a succulent plant known by the common name limestone liveforever, or limestone dudleya. Succulent plants, also known as succulents or fat plants, are Water -retaining Plants adapted to Arid climate or Soil conditions It is endemic to California, where it is a rare resident of limestone outcroppings and rocky slopes in the southern Sierra Nevada and nearby mountains and foothills. Endemism is the Ecological state of being unique to a place Endemic species are not naturally found elsewhere California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Limestone is a Sedimentary rock composed largely of the Mineral Calcite ( Calcium carbonate: CaCO3 The Sierra Nevada ( Spanish for "Snowy Range" is a Mountain range located in the U This plant grows a rosette of leaves up to about 10 centimeters wide, each leaf blade-shaped to cone-shaped and up to 10 centimeters long and one wide. The leaves are fleshy and hairless, generally pale green, often tinted with pink or yellow. From the rosette bolts an erect stem, which is a caudex topped with a multi-branched inflorescence. A caudex (plural caudices is a form of stem morphology appearing as a persistent spheroid enlargement (frequently Woody and non- photosynthetic An inflorescence is a group or cluster of Flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main Branch or a complicated arrangement of branches The stem and branches may be dark to very light and almost white in color. Each branch may be several centimeters long and bear two to eight flowers. The flowers are very pale yellow to reddish-yellow and have sharply pointed petals one to one and a half centimeters long.

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