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Heath Stonecrop

Crassula ericoides

Heath Stonecrop
Photo: yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0

Heath Stonecrop is a small, heather-like succulent shrub from South Africa's fynbos, with tiny needle-like leaves and yellow flowers at the stem tips. It is grown as a container or rock garden plant and needs bright light and well-drained soil.

Family
Crassulaceae (Stonecrop family)
Grows as
Shrub, Succulent
Light
Full sun, Bright indirect
Water
Water deeply when the soil is fully dry, and reduce watering in winter.
Soil
Free-draining cactus or succulent mix with added grit.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. Cape Prov. to KwaZulu-Natal
Climate
subtropical

About

Crassula ericoides is a species of succulent plant in the genus Crassula native to South Africa. Growing in the fynbos ecosystem of South Africa, C. ericoides somewhat resembles a heather, growing into an upright shrub with bare lower stems and yellow flowers at the tips.

Other Crassula plants

Three Parted Crassula · Grassland Red Crassula · Sand Coated Crassula · Crassula alstonii · Water pygmyweed · Jade Plant · Purple Stonecrop · Crassula ausensis · Beard Stonecrop · Bandaged Finger · Silver Stonecrop · Crassula brevifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Crassula ericoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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