Crassula closiana
A tiny erect succulent annual, 1–10 cm tall, with a scattered native range: Chile (Atacama to O'Higgins), Peru, Bolivia and Mexico, and south-western Western Australia. It germinates with the winter rains, flowers white to cream in spring and dies as the ground dries in summer, so it is grown from seed each year rather than kept as a perennial.
Where it grows wild
In Western Australia it grows in sandy soils in winter-wet places, on granite slopes and on coastal dunes. In Chile it occurs in the Mediterranean-climate zone from Atacama to O'Higgins. Like other small annual Crassula (formerly Tillaea), it favours open, sunny patches that are wet in winter and bake dry in summer.
No elevation data were found; Western Australian sites are lowland (coastal plain to wheatbelt).
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