Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Crassula helmsii
Swamp stonecrop
Crassulaceae
In and round permanently wet areas. Widespread. On the Western Slopes, only round Albury and Wagga Wagga
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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