Echeveria strictiflora
A small Chihuahuan Desert echeveria. Its rosettes are up to about 10 cm across, glaucous to brownish green, sometimes with red edges, and it carries pink to orange flowers on stems 20–25 cm tall. It grows in scattered populations on rocky limestone and gypsum slopes and cliffs, from the Big Bend and Davis Mountains of west Texas into Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. It wants strong light, a mineral mix, summer water and a cool, dry winter, and it is one of the more cold-tolerant echeverias.
Where it grows wild
It grows in crevices and on ledges on rocky outcrops, limestone ridges and gypsum slopes. It occurs in desert scrub at lower elevations, and in pinyon-juniper, ponderosa pine and oak woodland in the mountains, often on creekside rocks, where rock faces and scattered shrubs give some shade.
Collections range from about 750 m (Cuatro Ciénegas and Zaragoza in Coahuila) to 3160 m (Sierra El Coahuilón). Many are at 1200–1900 m.
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