This well-known species exists in many varieties, some with rather lurid colours. All have rosettes of fleshy leaves, and can in time form large mounds, from which many stems emerge, each with many flowers. They are best grown in a position where water cannot reside in the rosettes in winter.

Lewisia Brynhyfryd yellow-orange is a strain developed by hybridisation of four different species, carried out at Brynhyfryd Nursery on the Welsh-English border. The details of the alliances necessary to produce this fine strain are still top secret, but the outcome has been these fine plants, vigorous and with a range or orange and yellow colours.