Spreading Crassula

Scientific Name:

Crassula decumbens (syn. Crassula macrantha)

Status:

Australian native.

Spreading Crassula plant
Photo: A J Brown

Plant Description:

Erect or decumbent annual with many-branched stems from 3-10 cm long. Leaves are narrow-lanceolate (spear-shaped), often red-brown, 3-8 mm long and 1-2 mm wide.

Flower-heads contain 5-many flowers 1.5-2 mm long and white to cream in colour. Fruit is a follicle containing 4-12 seeds.

Habitat:

Widespread throughout Victoria, growing in moist places, including moderately saline flats.

Region	Salinity Class	Waterlogging Class
Mallee, Loddon Murray, Central and Northern, Wimmera, Western, Gippsland	S0, S1, S2	W1, W2, W3

Comments:

Other Crassula’s of moist and sometimes saline sites include, Austral Stonecrop (Crassula sieberiana) and Swamp Crassula (Crassula helmsii).

Spreading Crassula photos

Flower-heads of Spreading Crassula Photo: A J Brown	Plants of Spreading Crassula Photo: A J Brown
Flowers at various stages of Spreading Crassula Photo: A J Brown	Stems and leaves of Spreading Crassula Photo: A J Brown
Leaves and flowers of Spreading Crassula Photo: A J Brown	Spreading Crassula flowers Photo: A J Brown

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