Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Crassula helmsii
Common name
Swamp stonecrop
Family
Crassulaceae
Where found
In and round permanently wet areas. Widespread. On the Western Slopes, only round Albury and Wagga Wagga
Notes
Annual herb to 0.2 m tall, or trailing, often mat-forming, stems to 30 cm long. Stems and leaves sometimes slightly fleshy, opposite each other, 0.2-1.8 cm long, 0.4-3 mm wide, often brown, flat to concave above, often distinctly convex below, the leaves of each pair united at the base to form a ridge round the stem, tips blunt or pointed. Flowers with 4 petals, white, sometimes tinged red, shortly fused at the base, the lobes 1.2-2.1 mm long. Style about half the length of the ovary, the ovary gradually tapering into the style (visible with a hand lens or macro app on a mobile phone). Flowers single. Flowers mainly Summer.
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~helmsii (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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