Native records: 1 botanical areas
Mexico Central
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Distribution is shown as WGSRPD Level 3 areas. It does not imply the species occurs throughout an entire area.
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A succulent subshrub of seasonally dry tropical climates. Native to Mexico.
This entry carries only the classification and distribution data recorded in WCVP. A written account is not yet available.
Distribution areas
Mexico
- Mexico CentralNative
Climate of the native range
The Köppen climate classes found in the areas this plant is recorded as native to. It does not mean an entire area has that climate.
- Cwb Temperate, dry winter, warm summer
- Aw Tropical, savannah
The same climate occurs in 50 areas worldwide, 49 of which have no record of this plant. See them on the map
A matching climate does not mean the plant can grow there. Range limits are also set by things other than climate — dispersal history, soils, competition. Source: Beck et al. (2023), CC BY 4.0 (observed period 1991–2020).
Other names
Red velvet plush plant、red echeveria
- Family
- Crassulaceae
- Genus
- Echeveria
Other species in Echeveria
Sources
World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
Mexico · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
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Image information
Photograph of Echeveria harmsii
salchu from Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · File page