The Laguna Beach liveforever is a perennial succulent member of the stonecrop family (Crassulaceae). It was listed as threatened in 1998, and ongoing threats to the species include trampling and grazing, non-native plants, urbanization, horticultural collection, climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.

Learn more about climate change , the effects of small population size and hybridization. These threats have been reduced for approximately half of the occurrences that occur within the reserve system of the Orange County Central/Coastal Habitat Conservation Plan at Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, Laguna Coast Wilderness Park and Laguna Laurel Canyon. However, these threats continue to impact the species.