Crassula ruamahanga
A tiny, mat-forming Crassula endemic to New Zealand, named after the Ruamahanga River in the Wairarapa. It is a plant of damp, open lowland ground such as turf, wetland margins and seasonally wet hollows, so it behaves more like a small bog herb than a drought-tolerant succulent.
Where it grows wild
Grows in open, damp to seasonally wet lowland sites: turf and short grassland by rivers and lakes, ephemeral wetland margins and wet hollows, where taller plants are kept down by flooding or grazing.
Lowland: recorded from 2 to 60 m, median 10 m.
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