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Dudleya verityi

Common Name: Verity's Live-Forever

General: Grows in dense colonies, with each individual a small rosette of dark green leaves. Found growing on rock surfaces, on north-facing slopes. This species is listed under the United Stated Endangered Species Act (ESA) as category "threatened."

CSUCI: Large populations of this species are thriving on several rock faces, always with northern exposures. The plants grow from fissures in the rocks, sometimes from pads of moss or masses of Selaginella.

They produce stalks of small yellow flowers. In early Summer, from a distance, some cliff faces appear dull yellow, such is the density of these plants on their preferred habitat.

This is another very special member of CSUCI�s natural history, one worthy of preservation and study.

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