This species is widespread in the southeastern part of the range of the genus Lithops, and it grows in an area of mixed summer and winter rainfall. A clumping species, it produces heads that are light gray-green in color. Variety terricolor is something of a misnomer and represents a former Cole species, L. terricolor, that was merged into L. localis. The flowers are typically yellow in color, rarely white. These plants are rooted offsets in 2-inch pots.