Crassula muscosa

Image: Frank Vincentz

Description

Sprawling, closely leafy perennial, 10-50cm, with small, closely overlapping, scale-like leaves in 4 ranks; bears clusters of small, star-shaped, yellowish flowers in the axils of the upper leaves, the petals 1-2mm long.

Crassula Family

Information sourced from 'Field Guide to Fynbos' by John Manning. Struik Nature, Cape Town, 2007.

Sources and references

Scientific name

Crassula muscosa

Common name(s)

Lizard's Tail

Genus

Crassula