Crassula fallax

Crassula fallax is a perennial reaching 40 cm in height. The rounded, disc-shaped leaves decrease in size higher up, growing in laterally flattened rosettes.

The white flowers grow in small, dense, flat-topped clusters on slender, erect stalks. The flowers have five, pointed, cream coloured or nearly white petals that spread. Flowering happens from late spring to early autumn.

The species distribution is in the west of the Western Cape, from the Olifants River Mountains and Clanwilliam to Bredasdorp and Swellendam.

The habitat is sandy flats and dry slopes of fynbos and succulent Karoo. The species is not considered threatened in habitat early in the twenty first century (Mustart, et al, 1997; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; http://redlist.sanbi.org).