Scientific Name: Crassula decumbens var. decumbens

Common Name: spreading stonecrop

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Crassulaceae

Form Description: Small succulent annual herb often reddish, stem sometimes creeping at base.

Height (m): 0.02 – 0.06

Flowers: Numerous, on stalks 4-10mm long. Petals pale pink about as long as sepals (2-3mm).

Fruit: Seed follicles – in fruiting stage, carpels about as long as the calyx with a short beak and 6-12 seeds.

Municipality
No data available for this species
Plant Communities
Heath
Habitat Notes

Widespread and frequent in damp hollows in sandy heaths, pastures and roadsides.

Site Tolerance

Moist

Soil Tolerance

Fertile, Loam, Nutrient-poor, Poorly-drained, Sandy, Well-drained

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Division

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Can be grown from seed but usually propagated by division.

Seed Treatment Method

Standard Scatter seed thinly on to damp potting mix. Hold seed in place by covering with more potting mix to approximately the depth of the seed size.

Cutting & Division Information

Usually propagated by division.