Scientific Name: Crassula peduncularis

Common Name: purple stonecrop

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Crassulaceae

Form Description: Succulent annual herb, stems very slender, ascending.

Height (m): 0.02 – 0.03

Flowers: Solitary, axillary, often only 1 to a pair of leaves, on slender stalks which elongate at fruiting.

Fruit: Seed follicles with 10-12 seeds.

Municipality
Break O’DayBrightonCentral HighlandsClarenceDerwent ValleyDorsetFlindersGlamorgan-Spring BayKentishLauncestonNorthern MidlandsSouthern MidlandsWest Coast
Plant Communities
No data available for this species
Habitat Notes

Local in wet places but readily overlooked. Recorded from Mt. Direction near Hobart.

Site Tolerance

Moist, Waterlogged

Soil Tolerance

Poorly-drained

Propagation Calendar

  • Flowering Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Seed Collecting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Sowing Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Cutting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Propagation Method
Division

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Can be grown from seed but readily 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

Readily propagated by division.