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Flowers and leaves. Photo: Kevin Thiele, WA

Plants. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant group. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Dense Crassula, Dense Stonecrop

Family

Crassulaceae

Notes

Annual forb to 15cm tall.  Leaves succulent, opposite each other, stem clasping, 0.2-0.6cm long, 1.5-4mm wide, flat to concave, hairless.  Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), with 5 pale yellow to pink or red petals, in dense clusters at the bases of the leaves. 

Description and photo (as Crassula colorata) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 340

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Crassula~colorata