Crassula dependens
A low, mat-forming succulent with small narrow leaves and tiny white to red-tinged flowers, found in high-altitude grassland and rock outcrops in the Drakensberg, Lesotho and the eastern highveld. Unlike the Cape species, it grows in the wet summer and tolerates hard winter frost. It is small (often under 2 cm tall) and easy to overlook.
Where it grows wild
Grows in mountain grassland, often in rock cracks, on rock sheets and in shallow soil over rock. Observers describe it as mat-forming, with narrow succulent leaves and red and white flowers, under 20 mm tall.
Recorded from 1387 to 2400 m (median 2000 m, 5 records); it is a plant of the high Drakensberg and highveld.
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