Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Crassula colorata var. acuminata

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Kevin Thiele, WA

Plants. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Common name

Dense Crassula

Family

Crassulaceae

Where found

A range of habitats, particularly temporarily wet areas. Western Slopes, ACT, and tablelands.

Notes

Annual herb to 0.15 m tall.  Stems and leaves fleshy. Leaves opposite each other, 0.2-0.6 cm long, 0.8–4.4 mm wide, often red-brown; flat to concave above, often distinctly convex below, surfaces hairless, the leaves of each pair united at the base to form a ridge round the stem, tips blunt, rarely pointed. Flowers cream or pale yellow to pink or red, with 5 petals shortly fused at the base, the lobes 1.2-2.1 mm long. Flowers in dense clusters at the bases of the leaves. 

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~colorata (accessed 7 January, 2021)