Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Crassula sieberiana
Common name
Australian stonecrop, Sieber crassula
Family
Crassulaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, grassy areas, and rocky sites. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial herb, occasionally annual in the western part of the area covered by this key, to 0.2m tall, or sprawling, with stems to 20 cm long, usually rooting along the stems. Stems slightly fleshy, leaves somewhat fleshy. Leaves opposite each other, 0.2-1.1 cm long, 0.8–3.6 mm wide, more or less flat above, often strongly convex below, the leaves of each pair united at the base to form a ridge round the stem, tips blunt to pointed. Flowers cup-shaped, with 4, sometimes 5, yellow to red petals shortly fused at the base, the free obes each 1-2 mm long. Flowers in clusters up the stems. Flowers mainly Spring. Plants turn reddish with age or in dry conditions.
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~sieberiana (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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