Small, shrubby, will get 12″ tall and will spread a few feet wide if given well-drained soils and a little room to grow. Will also grow in rock gardens and can be contained in fairly small areas. Tiny green leaves get silvery in full sun. Covered in small bright white flowers in mid to late summer. From Cape Province, South Africa.
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Crassula brevifolia
Readily branching, very low growing sub-shrub. Small succulent paired leaves, will get a red edge in full sun.
Crassula capitella
Mat-forming, branching from base. Bright red in sun
Crassula capitella ssp. thyrsiflora
C. thyrsiflora
Mat-forming, branching from base, small and scrabbling along the ground. Bright red in sun.
Crassula cephalophora
Small propeller-like grey leaves with red tips in full sun. Shrubby to 18″.
Crassula columella
Miniature square-shaped vertical stems to 6″. Grows in quartz outcroppings along hillsides.
Crassula commutata
Mini-shrub to 4″ w/tiny thick leaves, white flower sprays
Crassula conjuncta
6″ towers of tightly stacked triangular leaves. Red tips in full sun.
Crassula conjuncta “Pagoda”
6″ towers of tightly stacked triangular leaves. Large, thick and outcurving with red edges.
Crassula corymbulosa
Dense branches of tightly packed triangular leaves forming short pagoda-like groups. Turns red in full sun.
Crassula cultrata
Spreading groundcover to 10″, Large leaves red in sun; yellow flowers
Crassula deceptor
Stacked leaves, very small. Leaves will get compact tightly stacked and whitish in full sun.
Crassula elegans ssp. namibensis
Small succulent with woody base, short branches and round to ovate leaves. Bright orange in full sun.
Crassula falcata
Grey leaves, criss-cross growth pattern, to 2ft.
Crassula lactea
Grows low, trailing. Small white flowers in winter.
Crassula lycopodioides
Slender stems to 10″t packed with tiny leaves. Fast-spreading mounds.
Crassula marchandii
Small squarish stems to 6″
Crassula marginalis
C. pellucida v. marginalis
Cascading groundcover, more water in spring/summer
Crassula marginalis “Variegata”
C. pellucida ssp. marginalis “Variegata”
Low growing colorful succulent with lots of white-pink flowers in summer. Great for rock gardens and hanging baskets.
Crassula marnieriana
Red-tipped green leaves are small and thick, lining up along a trailing stem.
Crassula marnieriana “Grey”
Red-tipped greyish-green tightly stacked leaves are small and thick, lining up along a short vertical stem.
Crassula mesembryanthemoides
Fuzzy green leaves and yellow flowers. Stem tips drop and root.
Crassula mesembryanthemopsis
Small, mesemb-like clumps with taproot; lacy white flowers
Crassula monticola
C. rupestris var. monticola
Short vertical stems with button-like rounded red and green leaves.
Crassula multicava
Shrubby with small red flowers on elongate clusters
Crassula muscosa
Grass-like slender stems to 10″t packed with tiny leaves
Crassula muscosa “Variegata”
Grass-like slender stems to 10″t packed with tiny variegated leaves
Crassula namaquensis
Dwarf sub-shrub with spiraling leaves. Low growing, small, thick fuzzy leaves. Lots of white-pink flowers in summer. Great for rock gardens.
Crassula nudicaulis
Small mounds of long narrow green-bean like leaves, tightly packed clumps, will turn more red in full sun.
Crassula nudicaulis v. herrei
Small mounds, tightly packed with low growing thick rounded leaves, red in sun