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Crassula helmsii
Plant name: Swamp stone crop
Plant type: sedges / rushes / wetland plants
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Origin: NSW, VIC, SA, WA.
Cultural notes: Aquatic or semi-aquatic, requires consistent water. Grow in full sun.
Maintenance: Can spread rapidly, should be cut back as necessary to prevent unwanted spreading.
Tolerates: Inundation, frost, salt.
Flowering season: Spring and summer.
Flower colour: Small white flowers, sometimes tinged with red, occuring in the upper leaf axils.
Foliage colour: Foliage is made up of narrow succulent light green leaves, sometimes tinged with red.
Height: up to 0.3m
Water depth: Wetland margins.
Plant spacing: 10cm apart
Recommended uses: Useful for supressing weed at the edge of ponds and dams, frog habitat.
Description: Spreading perennial that inhabits the edges of stationary or slow flowing water. Occasionally found floating in water. Spreads by rooting from the nodes.