Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Crassula decumbens var. decumbens
Common name
Spreading crassula
Family
Crassulaceae
Where found
Wide range of plant communities, usually in moist places. Mainly Sydney area and the Western Slopes. Occasional elsewhere.
Notes
Annual herb to 0.15 m high or sprawling to prostrate. Stems slightly fleshy, leaves fleshy. Leaves opposite each other, 0.25–0.9 cm long, 0.4–2 mm wide, often red-brown, more or less convex above and usually strongly convex below, the leaves of each pair united at the base to form a ridge round the stem, tips pointed, rarely blunt or rounded. Flowers white to cream or pink, with 4 or 5 petals 1.4–3 mm long, shortly fused at the base. Sepals about as long as the petals. Flowers in branched clusters.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Crassula~decumbens (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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