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Drosera arcturi is one of several native carnivorous plants in New Zealand, and distinguished by long erect leaves, unlike the prostrate, spathulate leaves of the other species. These were growing in alpine swamp near Arthurs Pass.
Introduced, cool-season, annual, low-growing, hairless legume, with prostrate to ascending stems. Leaves have 3 leaflets, each oblong to round and 4-13 mm long. The central leaflet has a distinctly longer stalk than the lateral ones. Flowerheads are loose to somewhat dense hemispherical clusters (6-7 mm long) of 3-20 yellow pea-like flowers. Flowering is in spring. A native of Europe, it is found in pastures, woodlands, lawns and roadsides. Although it often occurs at reasonably high density in short pastures, productivity is low and it has a high proportion of stem to leaf. It is palatable and grows from autumn to early summer (very dependent on rainfall), but only produces useful amounts of feed in spring. Requires moist soil for growth, so tends to burn-off rapidly in late spring as temperatures rise and soil moisture often remains low. Growth increases with applied phosphorus as long as pastures are kept short in late winter and early spring, but the response is likely to be too small to be economic.
Introduced, cool season, annual, semi-prostrate to erect, tufted grass to 1.5m tall. Flowerheads are open panicles to 40cm long. Spikelets are 1.7–2.5 cm long (without the awns), each with 1–7 florets. Glumes are 1.5–3 cm long. Lemmas are 1.2–2.5 cm long, hairless, 2-toothed and the lowest lemma usually awned, others usually unawned; awn, when present, usually straight, 15–45 mm long, inserted at about middle of lemma to below sinus. Flowering is in spring. A native of Europe, it is sown as a crop and/or forage on more fertile soils. It has slight aluminium tolerance; although this varies between varieties (Saia more tolerant). Has potential for high production of quality feed in the winter feed gap if fertilized. Sow mid-February to early April for all varieties. Can be direct drilled into kikuyu, but not till kikuyu has gone dormant. Don’t graze until plants are well anchored. Don’t graze below 5 cm for prostrate varieties or 10 cm for erect varieties for best recovery. Doesn’t recover from grazing once it has started to run to head. Can be susceptible to rust, and barley yellow dwarf virus. Produces feed earlier than ryegrass, but not as long into spring.
A prostrate to semi-erect shrub found in eastern Australia. It occurs from as far south as Pigeon House Mountain north to Kendall, New South Wales on the mid north coast. A common plant in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. Found as far west as Blackheath. It is often noticed by bushwalkers for the attractive flowers and arching foliage. The specific epithet secundum means "arranged on one side only".
The habitat is moist rocky areas and wet cliff faces, usually on sandstone. Sites are nutrient poor with permanent moisture. The range of altitude is from sea level to 1100 metres above sea level, with an average annual rainfall between 900 mm and 1600 mm.
The shrub is around 60 cm tall with narrow crowded leaves with pointed tips. Leaves are 12 cm long by 1 cm wide, smooth edged or slightly toothed.
Flowering occurs mainly from July to October. Flowers are pink and white. Bell shaped flowers are 6 to 8 mm long, appearing on a long raceme. The fruit is a capsule, around 5 mm in diameter. Seeds are dispersed by wind, water and gravity.
This plant first appeared in scientific literature in the Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae in the year 1810, authored by Robert Brown.
Source: Wikipedia
See also the white form, both within a couple of metres of each other: flic.kr/p/KJGYzC
A prostrate to semi-erect shrub found in eastern Australia. It occurs from as far south as Pigeon House Mountain north to Kendall, New South Wales on the mid north coast. A common plant in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. Found as far west as Blackheath. It is often noticed by bushwalkers for the attractive flowers and arching foliage. The specific epithet secundum means "arranged on one side only".
The habitat is moist rocky areas and wet cliff faces, usually on sandstone. Sites are nutrient poor with permanent moisture. The range of altitude is from sea level to 1100 metres above sea level, with an average annual rainfall between 900 mm and 1600 mm.
The shrub is around 60 cm tall with narrow crowded leaves with pointed tips. Leaves are 12 cm long by 1 cm wide, smooth edged or slightly toothed.
Flowering occurs mainly from July to October. Flowers are pink and white. Bell shaped flowers are 6 to 8 mm long, appearing on a long raceme. The fruit is a capsule, around 5 mm in diameter. Seeds are dispersed by wind, water and gravity.
This plant first appeared in scientific literature in the Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae in the year 1810, authored by Robert Brown.
Source: Wikipedia
This annual amaranth is often reported as forming a tumbleweed by late fall. Locally abundant in the Table Rock area, prostrate pigweed like other species in the genus requires sites with high levels of disturbance, such as alongside heavily used trails. The long attenuate spine-tipped flower bracts that surpass the length of the tepals enclosed distinguish this species from the similar Amaranthus blitoides. This site lies along the trail that leaves the neighborhood west of Table Rock, Boise, Idaho.
Māmane
Fabaceae
Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands
Oʻahu (Cultivated); Oʻahu origin, "papa" or prostrate form
Young plant; no flowers yet.
Early Hawaiians used the strong wood for posts, rafters and thatching posts or purlins in house (hale) construction. The wood was also fashioned into scraping board for olonā (Touchardia latifolia) and farm spades.
The wood was used as a superior fire wood.
The bright yellow flowers were used in lei making.
Māmane, or uhiuhi (Mezoneuron kavaiense), wood was also used for sled runners in a sport for the aristocrats called papa hōlua. The slopes were usually made with layers of grass or ti leaves.
Notes the Huliheʻe Palace website: "The person about to slide gripped the sled by the right hand grip, ran a few yard to the starting place, grasped the other hand grip with the left hand, threw himself forward with all his strength, fell flat on the sled and slid down the hill. His hands held the handgrips and the feet were braced against the last cross piece on the rear portion of the sled. The sport was extremely dangerous as the sleds attained high speed running down hill. Much skill was necessary to keep an even balance and to keep from running off the slide or overturning the sled. In competitions, the sled that went the farthest, won."
In more recent times, the durable wood was used in fences years ago.
The seeds can be strung on a beautiful permanent lei and flowers as temporary lei.
Soaked seeds produce a bright yellow to amber colored water and possibly could be used to make a yellow dye.
Wood is still used today to smoke meat.
Introduced, warm season, annual or short-lived perennial, prostrate herb with reddish
stems to 80cm long and a woody taproot. Leaves consist of 4-8 pairs of leaflets (4-12mm long); leaflets are dark green above and silvery-grey below; hairs mostly restricted to the midrib and margins. Solitary flowers in the axils are small, bright yellow and 5-petalled. Fruit have 5 segments each bearing short hard spines. Flowers from spring to autumn. A weed in pastures and fallowed cropping country. Often found around sheds, laneways and roadsides. In urban areas it is regarded as a nuisance weed on footpaths and playing fields. It easily attaches to machinery, tyres, animals and shoes aiding its spread. The spiny fruit can cause vegetable fault in wool and lameness to stock. Becomes dominant when other vegetation is removed by fallows, droughts or overgrazing. Prevention of spread is the best control measure. Establish competitive pastures to outcompete catheads. A wide range of herbicides can be used. Grazing with cattle is preferred as photosensitisation, nitrate poisoning and staggers in sheep have been known to occur.
Prostrate Blue Spruce
Zone: 4-7
Height: 1-2ft. tall and 6-10ft. wide
Deer Resistant
Colorado Spruce is a medium to large, narrow, pyramidal, everygreen conifer with horizontal branching to the ground. Silver-blue needles are attractive year-round! Great for waterfalls or spilling over walls.
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Short-leaved Frankenia
A prostrate shrub growing on the edge of a salt flats.
We have visited this population a number of times and this year there were white and pink flowers. There were more flowers than we have seen in the past.
Photo: Fred
Series of 10 photos
The flower of Polygonum is often with 5 white-tipped tepals and the perianth is fused basally. The prostrate growth habit in disturbed (including lawn) settings is characteristic of this Polygonum species. This site lies at the south end of Grafs Park along Graf Street, Bozeman, Montana.
Introduced, warm season, annual or short-lived perennial, prostrate herb with reddish
stems to 80cm long and a woody taproot. Leaves consist of 4-8 pairs of leaflets (4-12mm long); leaflets are dark green above and silvery-grey below; hairs mostly restricted to the midrib and margins. Solitary flowers in the axils are small, bright yellow and 5-petalled. Fruit have 5 segments each bearing short hard spines. Flowers from spring to autumn. A weed in pastures and fallowed cropping country. Often found around sheds, laneways and roadsides. In urban areas it is regarded as a nuisance weed on footpaths and playing fields. It easily attaches to machinery, tyres, animals and shoes aiding its spread. The spiny fruit can cause vegetable fault in wool and lameness to stock. Becomes dominant when other vegetation is removed by fallows, droughts or overgrazing. Prevention of spread is the best control measure. Establish competitive pastures to outcompete catheads. A wide range of herbicides can be used. Grazing with cattle is preferred as photosensitisation, nitrate poisoning and staggers in sheep have been known to occur.
"Erect, spreading or prostrate herb, to 0.3 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. Red sand, clay. Saline flats & depressions."
Introduced, cool-season annual, stemless or short-stemmed herb to 30 cm tall. Leaves form a prostrate rosette to 50 cm in diameter; they are spear shaped, serrated, deeply lobed; upper surface hairless to hairy; lower surface white felted. Flowerheads occur on unbranched peduncles. Ray florets are yellow, ligulate and sterile; disc florets are dark, tubular and bisexual. Germinates in autumn/winter; flowers in spring. A native of South Africa, it is strongly competitive weed of crops, pastures, lawns and disturbed areas (e.g. roadsides). Prefers lighter textured soils of reasonable fertility and where there is a lack of competition. Grazed by stock, but is of lower value than many good pasture species. Can cause nitrate poisoning in sheep and cattle on high fertility soils; taints milk; causes allergic skin reaction in horses and donkeys. Best managed using a number of methods: competition, grazing, mechanical, herbicides. Maintain dense, vigorous pastures and minimise soil disturbance. Needs to be controlled in year prior to sowing pastures; control is easiest at the seedling stage. Combined knockdown herbicides prior to sowing, selective post-sowing herbicides or manuring of crops and pastures can be highly effective for control.
Newmarket Journal 15th November 1884:
On Thursday week it was our pleasure to receive for publication intelligence of the birth of a daughter to the wife of Mr Frederick James Archer, the well-known and highly-esteemed jockey, and, for all our information contained, we had reason to hope that mother and babe were doing well; Mrs Archer’s second confinement not leaving her in that critical condition to which she was prostrated after giving birth to her first child. Up to eight o’clock on Friday morning, we now learn, she had progressed very favourably, and her condition was so satisfactory as to lull for the time any fears which might have arisen of the confinement terminating fatally. About the hour named, however, Mrs Archer was seized with convulsions, and unconsciousness supervened. Such a serious form did the illness take that Dr. J.R. Wright, the family medical attendant, who had been in intermittent attendance upon Mrs Archer from the time of her confinement, thought it necessary to call in the assistance of two of his brother practitioners in the town, and Drs. C.F. Gray, and W. Hutchinson were in consultation with Dr. Wright, and remained, with short intervals, at Falmouth House up to the time of Mrs Archer’s death. Dr. Latham, of Cambridge, was also summoned, but this array of medical acumen was powerless to avert the calamity about to fall on the prosperous house, and a fatal end to the illness was seen to be inevitable. In spite of all that the best medical advice obtainable, and the affectionate attendance of those around her, could do, the efforts to avert the visit of the Great Destroyer were unavailable, and Mrs Archer died very shortly before midnight on Friday.
With a saddening incongruity - for death had outstripped the speediest complimentary missive - congratulatory letters and telegrams on the birth of a daughter came pouring in from all parts of the kingdom and from the continent, where the first pleasing announcement had found its way. Unwitting that "the silver bowl was broken," and Falmouth House, from a mansion joyous over the birth to it of another generation of its family, had been changed to a sorrow-stricken household - friends, patrons, and admirers, were despatching the usual delicate compliments of society, so soon to be exchanged for the deep black-edged missives of sympathy and regret.
The news of Mrs Archer’s death, it is almost needless to add, created a profoundly sorrowful impression in Newmarket, where as Miss Nellie Rose Dawson, and the happy bride of Mr Fred. Archer, and no less as the young wife and mistress of an extensive and fashionable family residence, her amiable, kindly, cheering presence had won the hearts of many and the respect of all. And in the sporting world outside its Metropolis no less marked was the genuine regret at the fell stroke of sorrow which had overtaken one of its brightest ornaments, in the loss of his youthful and popular partner in an all too brief married life.
In addition to the manifold tokens of this general sympathy and mourning which we shall have to chronicle in connection with the funeral, we may mention that amongst some 200 letters and telegrams of condolence addressed to Mr Archer by the sporting nobility, gentry, and others, after the sad event became known, were very thoughtful and feeling messages from the Duke of Portland, Lord Falmouth, Lord Alington, and Lord Hastings.
The flowers and fruit tend to grow under the shrub with the seed dropping onto the ground like sand. florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/19455
"Prostrate, succulent annual, herb. Fl. green, Sep. Yellow-orange-red sand, red clayey sand. Sandplains."
Metrosideros polymorpha (Ohia, lehua, ohia lehua)
Prostrate plant at Polipoli, Maui, Hawaii.
December 24, 2005
"Prostrate to upright shrub, 0.02-0.35 m high. Fl. cream-white/cream-yellow, Jul or Sep to Nov. Sandy & loamy soils, lateritic clay. Flats."
Creation Date: ca. 1745
Display Dimensions: 7 9/32 in. x 4 7/8 in. (18.5 cm x 12.4 cm)
Credit Line: Edwin Binney 3rd Collection
Accession Number: 1990.1223
Collection: The San Diego Museum of Art
The prostrate kānuka
is one of the few plants that can survive hot grounds in the immediate surroundings of geothermal features like fumaroles and craters, for instance at "Craters of the Moon" (Karapiti), a geothermal area close to Taupo in New Zealand.
This particular tree in the Otari-Wilton's Bush plant sanctuary is very old and has been pruned above the ground to allow other plants sppace beneath. The effect is to show off the rather flattened structure of the trunk and branches as compared with standard kanuka. The flowers on the prostrate form are also noticeably smaller than kanuka but have the same smothering pattern to make the tree appear almost white with snow.
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Kunzea
Species:K. ericoides var microflora
Kanuka is a tree or shrub which is restricted to Australia and New Zealand. Until 1983, Kānuka was classified as being in the genus Leptospermum.
It is widespread particularly in coastal scrub and colonising land recovering after a fire or reverting to a natural state after being used for agriculture. However it has been recorded growing to altitudes of 2000 metres above sea level. With its small but abundant flowers it can colour a whole hillside white, almost giving the appearance of snow cover. The wood is very hard and although not durable in the ground it is used for wharf piles and tool handles. It is particularly popular as firewood, burning with a great heat. In New Zealand, Kānuka can grow up to 30 metres high with a trunk up to one metre across.
Kākāriki parakeets (Cyanoramphus) use leaves and bark of Kānuka and the related Mānuka tea trees to rid themselves of parasites. Apart from ingesting the material, they also chew it, mix it with preen gland oil and apply it to their feathers. Mānuka and Kānuka are superficially similar species and they are often confused with one another - the easiest way to tell the difference between them is to feel the foliage, Kānuka leaves being soft, while Mānuka leaves are prickly.
Introduced, warm season, ephemeral or perennial herb with prostrate stems that are softly hairy, to 60 cm long and rooting at the nodes. Leaves are paired and usually differ in size. Flowerheads consist of small clusters of greenish or greenish-yellow flowers in the leaf axils. Parts of the flowers become hardened and form sharp prickles as they mature. Flowering occurs from spring through to autumn. A weed of disturbed sites, bare areas, roadsides, parks, lawns, waste areas and watercourses. Suspected of poisoning sheep and pigs, and causing digestive disturbances and skin ailments in cattle. Horses can develop a form of staggers where it is abundant. Burrs can contaminate stock feeds and wool. Can be controlled by maintaining high levels of groundcover and growing competitive species.
Introduced, cool-season annual, stemless or short-stemmed herb to 30 cm tall. Leaves form a prostrate rosette to 50 cm in diameter; they are spear shaped, serrated, deeply lobed; upper surface hairless to hairy; lower surface white felted. Flowerheads occur on unbranched peduncles. Ray florets are yellow, ligulate and sterile; disc florets are dark, tubular and bisexual. Germinates in autumn/winter; flowers in spring. A native of South Africa, it is strongly competitive weed of crops, pastures, lawns and disturbed areas (e.g. roadsides). Prefers lighter textured soils of reasonable fertility and where there is a lack of competition. Grazed by stock, but is of lower value than many good pasture species. Can cause nitrate poisoning in sheep and cattle on high fertility soils; taints milk; causes allergic skin reaction in horses and donkeys. Best managed using a number of methods: competition, grazing, mechanical, herbicides. Maintain dense, vigorous pastures and minimise soil disturbance. Needs to be controlled in year prior to sowing pastures; control is easiest at the seedling stage. Combined knockdown herbicides prior to sowing, selective post-sowing herbicides or manuring of crops and pastures can be highly effective for control.
This was once a low evergreen growing prostrate over the rock, now stripped bare by wind and weather and time.
Introduced, warm-season, perennial, prostrate to erect, woody herb or shrub to 1 m tall. Stems are reddish, hairless, with weak opposite longitudinal ridges; they arise from rhizomes or woody crowns. Leaves are opposite, sessile, hairless, to 3 cm long and have many translucent dots (oil glands) that are easily seen when held to the light. Flowerheads are panicles or corymbose cymes. Flowers are numerous and 15-20 mm wide. Petals are yellow and have black glands on their edges. Styles are 3-branched. Fruit are sticky 3-valved capsules, 5 to 10 mm long. Flowers in late spring and summer. Found in neglected pastures, sparse bushland and disturbed areas. Tiny seeds spread by water and in soil, hay and livestock. Sticky fruits adhere to animals; long runners spread from crowns. Causes photosensitisation and numerous other disorders in livestock; animals tend to recover once removed. Established plants are very competitive and are best controlled by herbicides or, if suitable, by cultivation. Introduced insect (Chrysolina beetles) and mite (St John’s wort mite ) predators provide good levels of control in many areas. Promote dense, healthy pastures to compete with seedlings, which are not robust.
A semi-prostrate fig much used in Florida and eastern Australia in amenity plantings as ground cover. Some people in Queensland are under the misapprehension that it is a native, because there is an island called Green Island on the barrier reef near Cairns, but its actually from the Ryukyu islands between southern Japan and Taiwan.
Prostrate Blue Spruce
Zone: 4-7
Height: 1-2ft. tall and 6-10ft. wide
Deer Resistant
Colorado Spruce is a medium to large, narrow, pyramidal, everygreen conifer with horizontal branching to the ground. Silver-blue needles are attractive year-round! Great for waterfalls of spilling over rocks.
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Introduced, warm-season, perennial, prostrate to erect, woody herb or shrub to 1 m tall. Stems are reddish, hairless, with weak opposite longitudinal ridges; they arise from rhizomes or woody crowns. Leaves are opposite, sessile, hairless, to 3 cm long and have many translucent dots (oil glands) that are easily seen when held to the light. Flowerheads are panicles or corymbose cymes. Flowers are numerous and 15-20 mm wide. Petals are yellow and have black glands on their edges. Styles are 3-branched. Fruit are sticky 3-valved capsules, 5 to 10 mm long. Flowers in late spring and summer. Found in neglected pastures, sparse bushland and disturbed areas. Tiny seeds spread by water and in soil, hay and livestock. Sticky fruits adhere to animals; long runners spread from crowns. Causes photosensitisation and numerous other disorders in livestock; animals tend to recover once removed. Established plants are very competitive and are best controlled by herbicides or, if suitable, by cultivation. Introduced insect (Chrysolina beetles) and mite (St John’s wort mite ) predators provide good levels of control in many areas. Promote dense, healthy pastures to compete with seedlings, which are not robust.
Introduced, warm-season, perennial, prostrate to erect, woody herb or shrub to 1 m tall. Stems are reddish, hairless, with weak opposite longitudinal ridges; they arise from rhizomes or woody crowns. Leaves are opposite, sessile, hairless, to 3 cm long and have many translucent dots (oil glands) that are easily seen when held to the light. Flowerheads are panicles or corymbose cymes. Flowers are numerous and 15-20 mm wide. Petals are yellow and have black glands on their edges. Styles are 3-branched. Fruit are sticky 3-valved capsules, 5 to 10 mm long. Flowers in late spring and summer. Found in neglected pastures, sparse bushland and disturbed areas. Tiny seeds spread by water and in soil, hay and livestock. Sticky fruits adhere to animals; long runners spread from crowns. Causes photosensitisation and numerous other disorders in livestock; animals tend to recover once removed. Established plants are very competitive and are best controlled by herbicides or, if suitable, by cultivation. Introduced insect (Chrysolina beetles) and mite (St John’s wort mite ) predators provide good levels of control in many areas. Promote dense, healthy pastures to compete with seedlings, which are not robust.
Prostrate perennial knawel (Scleranthus perennis subsp. prostratus) on Santon Track near Brandon.
The site is owned and managed by the Forestry Commission in order to protect and enhance populations of this and other critically endangered Breckland species that require disturbed soils.
"And to Allah prostrates whoever is within the heavens and the earth, willingly or by compulsion, and their shadows [as well] in the mornings and the afternoons." - Surat Ar-Ra`d
Pilgrims prostrating outside the Jokhang Temple in the heart of Lhasa, Tibet. The young child is attempting to imitate his mother's prostrating ritual. Also, open crotch pants are very common in China and Tibet for babies and toddlers who are trained to squat to do their business very early in life.