Crassula subaphylla

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Crassula subaphylla, photographed by James Deacon — fig. b James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 177449653

Crassula subaphylla, photographed by Di Turner — fig. c Di Turner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 166227075

Crassula subaphylla, photographed by Tim Kirsten — fig. d Tim Kirsten, CC0 1.0 / obs. 156550123

Crassula subaphylla, photographed by Justin Ponder — fig. e Justin Ponder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128007075

Crassula subaphylla, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel — fig. f Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109186402

Crassula subaphylla, photographed by Ludwig Muller — fig. g Ludwig Muller, CC0 1.0 / obs. 100246578

Crassula subaphylla, photographed by Tony Rebelo — fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 27076203

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Crassula subaphylla, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Cape Provinces	CPP	AFRICA
Free State	OFS
Namibia	NAM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 368 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	2.5 °C	5.5 °C	7.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	27.2 °C	29.7 °C	31.8 °C
Annual rainfall	173 mm	337 mm	573 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	15 mm	59 mm	103 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 368 research-grade observations of Crassula subaphylla that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Crassula cogmansensis (Kuntze) K.Schum.
Crassula incana Eckl. & Zeyh. ex Harv. & Sond.
Crassula loganiana Compton
Crassula remota Schönland
Crassula subaphylla var. puberula Harv.
Crassula subaphylla var. subaphylla
Crassula virgata Harv.
Globulea subaphylla (Eckl. & Zeyh.) P.V.Heath
Globulea subaphylla var. virgata (Harv.) P.V.Heath
Sedum cogmansense Kuntze
Sphaeritis incana Eckl. & Zeyh.
Sphaeritis puberula Eckl. & Zeyh.
Sphaeritis subaphylla Eckl. & Zeyh.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.