A dense mat of Pacific stonecrop rosettes in winter color. Photo: Broadwaymoon22 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Sedum spathulifolium, commonly called Pacific stonecrop or
A naked buckwheat plant showing its basal leaf rosette and tall, wiry, leafless flowering stems. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Eriogonum nudum, commonly called
Desert trumpet’s signature swollen stems, the feature that gives the plant its common name. Photo: Agnieszka KwiecieĊ, Nova / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Eriogonum
Coast buckwheat colonizing a sea bluff, its sturdy stems arching out over bare rock. Photo: oliveoligarchy / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Eriogonum latifolium, known
Arrowleaf buckwheat’s gray-green, arrow-shaped basal leaves and tall flowering stalks, growing wild in Klamath National Forest, California. Photo: Kollibri1969 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Lanceleaf liveforever’s narrow, upward-curving leaves distinguish it from broader-leaved Dudleya relatives. Photo: Joe Decruyenaere / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Dudleya lanceolata, commonly called lanceleaf
Indian rhubarb’s broad, shield-shaped leaves form dense streambank colonies by midsummer. Photo: Wouter Hagens / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) Darmera peltata (syn. Peltiphyllum peltatum), commonly
Chalk liveforever’s powdery white rosettes cling directly to rock crevices with almost no visible soil. Photo: Z3lvs / Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Dudleya pulverulenta, commonly called
Canyon liveforever sends up slender pink flower stalks from a compact rosette wedged into a rock crevice. Photo: Ken-ichi Ueda / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY
Bluff lettuce forms tight clusters of pale, pink-edged rosettes directly on coastal rock. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Dudleya farinosa,
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