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Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Indigenous Plant Use
Identification & Control of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Crassula helmsii synonym: Tillaea helmsii |
| Common Name: | new zealand pigmyweed, spreading crassula, swamp crassula, swamp stonecrop |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Ground Cover (up to 30 cm), Low Growing Shrub (30 cm to 1 m), Aquatic |
| Growing Conditions: | Full Sun
Boggy, Aquatic |
| Size (HxW): | 30 cm high |
| Foliage: | Pairs of succulent, narrow green to reddish pointed leaves 3-18 mm x 0.4-3 mm, flat above, convex below. Submerged leaves broader. |
| Flowers: | Single tiny white, tinged with red open flowers on long stalks per pair of leaves, November-April |
| General Comments: | Fast grower, can be invasive. Plants may creep or float depending on the depth of water. Fast growing plant which provides a dense cover on the walls of and in ponds and dam. Copes with high salt levels. Excellent for suppressing weeds. Aquarium plant. |
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This image by Friends of Chiltern Mt Pilot National Park, has licence: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/>
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