[‘In honor of M. Echeveri, author of the splendid drawings of the Flora Mexicana’ (Paxton).] A handsome genus of succulent plants allied to the house-leek (N.O. Crussulaceæ), extensively used in carpet gardening.
1840. Paxton, Bot. Dict.
1883. Pall Mall Gaz., 17 Sept., 3/2. My Londoner, who … likes old friends among the flowers whose names he has got well into his head better than all the Alternantheras and Echeverias.
1883. G. Allen, in Colin Clout’s Calendar, 147. It will not away with your modern gloxinias and echeverias.
