About Dudleya blochmaniae subsp. brevifolia (Moran) Moran
This plant, Dudleya blochmaniae subsp. brevifolia, forms a small basal rosette that grows from an underground corm. The rosette measures only around 0.5 to 7 cm across, and its leaves are summer deciduous. Individual leaves are 1 to 6 cm long and 1 to 4 mm wide, with tips ranging from acute to rounded, and a generally narrow petiole. Their shape is typically oblanceolate to club-shaped. When a leaf is removed from the plant, the wound at the detachment point turns red. For reproductive morphology, the inflorescence branches 2 to 3 times, and may branch an additional one time after that. The terminal branches of the inflorescence are 1 to 6 cm long, and each holds 3 to 10 flowers. Lower bracts on the inflorescence are often more than twice as long as they are wide. Flower pedicels are less than 1 mm long. The open flowers are white and star-shaped. The flower sepals measure 1.5 to 4 mm long, and are shaped deltate to ovate. The petals spread out from the base, are 5 to 10 mm long, shaped elliptic with an acute tip, and are white in overall color. The keel of the petal is typically marked with fine red lines. In cultivation, this corm-like succulent flowers from late spring to early summer. It often produces flowers less than one year after sowing. Plants may die back and disappear when grown in locations that receive high rainfall.
