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"Erect, spreading or prostrate herb, to 0.3 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. Red sand, clay. Saline flats & depressions."
Prostrate hutchinsia (Hornungia procumbens), Mustard family (Brassicaceae).
Slopes south of Springdale, near Zion Nat. Park, Utah.
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.
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Prostrate,warm-season, perennial herb forming dense mats up to 1.6 m across. Stems are thick and woody. Grey, hairy, slightly succulent, roughly spoon-shaped leaves are alternately arranged along the stems and 4–25 mm long. Flowers are tiny white to pink, found in the leaf axils and have 5 "petals" and 10 stamens. Fruit are small (2-3 mm across) cup-shaped capsules containing a small number of seeds. Flowering is from spring through to autumn. Not very common, but may be locally abundant, especially in the Hunter Valley. Often forms dense mats on roadsides, lawns, wasteland, and other disturbed areas. Tolerates drought and soil salinity. Most commonly found in areas receiving summer rainfall, on loam soils. Does not persist in areas that are regularly and frequently grazed. Successfully planted to stabilise mine tailing dumps, but has spread from there.
Gentiana prostrata 'Moss Gentian' is a small prostrate, alpine gentian that has its stem leaves almost all the same size and they are bent backward. The solitary blue flowers are borne at the tips of branches. This is a very inconspicuous plant and flower. A nice group of flowers growing on an alpine meadow at 2366 m (7760 ft). Gentian Family, Gentianaceae, Plateau Mountain Ecological Reserve, Kananaskis Country, 7254August 01, 2011
Introduced, warm-season, annual to short-lived
perennial, prostrate to sprawling legume. Stems are hairless to densely bristly. Leaves are
pinnate, with 20-50 leaflets, each 3-15 mm long. Flowerheads consist of clusters of 3-10 yellow pea-like
flowers in the leaf axils. Pods are divided into 3-7 segments and covered in dense soft or stiffly erect hairs. Flowers throughout the growing season. A native of North America, it is sown for grazing or as an orchard ground cover. Best suited to soils with a pH(Ca) greater than 5, an annual rainfall of more than 1000 mm and where moisture is retained. It is not very persistent on poor
country. A palatable and high quality feed, it produces
moderate yields under good conditions. Not very drought tolerant and is susceptible to
powdery mildew. Responds strongly to phosphorus applications, but will tolerate low fertility (although much lower
yielding). Tolerates heavy grazing and benefits from levels of grazing which reduce shading by grasses.
Prostrate to sprawling shrub with a variable flowering time of May, July, September, October or November.
Photos Jean 2004
The prostrate habit and relative broad ovate leaves are distinctive of this species and distinguish it from Amaranthus blitoides, which is another often prostrate amaranth in this area. Like Amaranthus blitoides, the flowers are congested into axillary clusters, but each bears 1-3 sepals and these are not obscured by the short subtending flower bracts. This site lies on a newly constructed area involving the Animal Bioscience Building on the Montana State University campus, Bozeman.
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.
Rawang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Justicia procumbens L. Acanthaceae. CN: Water willow. Native to the paleotropics; elsewhere naturalized. A slender, often tufted, prostrate or ascending, branched annual. Stems are 10 to 40 cm long. Leaves are elliptic to oblong-ovate or ovate, 7 to 20 mm long, 5 to 20 mm wide, obtuse at both ends, and entire or with slightly crenated margins. Flowers are pink, 6 to 7 mm long, and borne in terminal, rather dense cylindric spike 1 to 5 cms long and about 5 mm in diameter. Bracts and calyx-teeth are green, linear-lanceolate, and hairy. Fruit is slightly hairy and about 4 mm long. Traditionally used in folk medicine and in Taiwan as an ingredient of herbal tea.
Synonym(s):
Ecbolium procumbens (L.) Kuntze
Rostellaria adenostachya Nees
Rostellaria japonica Carrière
Rostellaria procumbens Nees
Rostellularia adenostachya Nees
Rostellularia juncea Nees
Rostellularia media Nees
Rostellularia mollissima Nees
Rostellularia pogonanthera F.Muell.
Rostellularia procumbens Nees
Rostellularia sarmentosa Zoll. ex Nees
Ref and suggested reading:
FRIM Flora Database
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2329315
www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?428155
Species from eastern North America
Common name: dollar-leaf, prostrate ticktrefoil
Photographed in Big Creek Natural Area, Cleburne County, Arkansas
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.
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Family : Proteaceae
ID Thanks to ibsut and Tony Rodd
Here at Round Head Headland near Town of 1770 this species occurs side by side in both red and white (or cream) coloured forms.
Interestingly, this is the site where Captain Cook and Joseph Banks, presumably who the species was named after, came ashore on the 24th May 1770.
The following is from Tony Rodd - re the naming of Grevillea banksii. ((See comment on another photo)
G. banksii was named by Robert Brown in 1810, in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Brown stated its origin as "In Novae Hollandiae ora orientale: Keppel Bay, Pine Port, &c". The actual specimen in the British Museum, chosen as lectotype by McGillivray and Makinson from among Brown's collections in the British Museum, is cited by them as "Port I [between Facing and Curtis Islands, near Gladstone]".
Here is a few other pics I have of a taller growing Grevillea banksii I have growing here at home.
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.
Native, warm season, perennial herb with prostrate or twining branches. Has an unpleasant odour like fish-based plant fertiliser when crushed. Leaves are alternate, stalked, broad-triangular, hastate and to 5 cm long. Flowerheads are or reduced to axillary clusters. Flowers are small and bisexual, with 5 perianth segments and 1 or 2 stamens. Fruit are dry at maturity. Flowering is in summer and autumn. Grows in grassy woodlands and sclerophyll forests. A very fast coloniser of bare or disturbed sites following summer rainfall. Useful as a stabiliser of bare soils.
Species from eastern North America
Common name: dollar-leaf, prostrate ticktrefoil
Photographed in Big Creek Natural Area, Cleburne County, Arkansas
Native, warm season, perennial herb. Stems are creeping, prostrate to decumbent and slender, with strongly retrorse-strigose hairs. Leaves are hastate, 2.5–8 cm long and 6–17 mm wide,with hairs on veins and margins; ocreas have scattered rather spreading hairs, hairless on upper margin. Flowerheads have 1–6 small, rather isolated clusters borne on 2 or 3 relatively long branches at 5–15 mm intervals; only 1 mature flower per cluster at any one time. Perianth segments are 2.7–4.0 mm long and pink or white. Widespread, but occasional, in eastern Australia, occurring on the coast and Western Slopes. Grows on margins of swamps and lagoons. Not eaten by stock unless desperate.
Lotus berthelotii 'Gold Flash'
Common Name: Coral Gem, Parrot's Beak
Family: Papilionaceae
Characteristics: perennial, evergreen
Height: 0.20m Width: 0.50m
Growth rate: medium
Growth habit: prostrate
Leaf colour: grey-green
Flower colour: orange
Main period of interest: Summer
Growing conditions: full sun, part shade, moist soil, sandy soil
Prefered soil pH: any
Minimum temperature: 0°C
Description:
Prostrate or trailing sub-shrub with long stems of linear, silvery grey-green leaves. Flame-like dark red, orange and golden yellow flowers in late spring and summer. Not to be confused with water Lotus.
Cultivation:
Moist but very well drained soil in sun. Not frost hardy.
Propagation:
From seed or semi-ripe cuttings.
Usage:
Containers, hanging baskets or as a conservatory plant.
Other notes:
Native to the cloud forests of Tenerife and the Cape Verde Islands, but now very rare in the wild. Fortunately it is commonly cultivated.
Amaranthaceae (amaranth family) » Cyathula prostrata (L.) Blume
sy-ATH-uh-la or sy-ATH-yoo-la -- small cup ... Dave's Botanary
prost-RAY-tuh -- prostrate ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: cyathula, prostrate pastureweed • Hindi: लाल चिरचिटा lal chirchita • Kannada: ನೆಲ ಉತ್ತರಾಣಿ nela uttharaani, ರಕ್ತಪಮರ್ಗ raktapamarga • Konkani: ¿ धाकटो मोगरा dhakto mogra ? • Malayalam: ചെറുകടലാടി cerukadalaadi • Marathi: भुईअघाडा bhuiaghaada • Tamil: சிவப்பு நாயுருவி civappu nayuruvi
Native to: tropical Africa, s China, Indian subcontinent, Indo-China, Malesia; naturalized elsewhere
References: Flowers of India • Flora of China • PIER • NPGS / GRIN • ENVIS - FRLHT
Dibatabata (Kikongo), hogweed
A semi-prostrate annual herb with ascending flowering stems up to 60 cm tall. A common weed.
The whole plant and particularly the root is used medicinally in Bas-Congo as a snake bite antidote and to counter inflammation. Goats eat the plants and sometimes return home with edible caterpillars, also called Batabata, around their mouths.
Please view large version to enjoy the details of the flower, especialy the center.
The oxeye daisy also known as the marguerite is a widespread flowering plant native to Europe and the temperate regions of Asia. It is one of a number of plants to be called by the common name daisy. It is also sometimes called moon daisy or dog daisy.
It is a perennial prostrate herb with small flower head (not larger than 5 cm) that consists of about 20 white ray flowers and numerous yellow disc flowers, growing on the end of the stem. The stem is mostly unbranched and sprouts laterally from a creeping rootstock.
The leaves are darkgreen on both sides. The basal and middle leaves are petiolate, obovate to spoon-shaped, and serrate to dentate. The upper leaves are shorter, sessile and borne along the stem.
It produces an abundant number of flat seeds without pappus. It spreads also vegetatively by rooting underground stems.
The oxeye daisy is a typical meadow flower, growing in a variety of plant communities such as dry fields, meadows, but also under scrubs, open-canopy forests and waste places. It thrives in a wide range of conditions and prefers heavy and damp soils. It was introduced in parts of North America, Australia and New Zealand, where it is now a common weed displacing native plant species in some areas. It is difficult to control or eradicate, since a new plant can regenerate from rhizome fragments.
Source : Wikipedia
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.
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That's a beggar woman on the sidewalk. During my short stay in Shanghai, I saw several beggars (usually very old-looking people) lying prostrate on the sidewalks, without moving at all. Passers-by simply walk around them.
"Erect, spreading or prostrate herb, to 0.3 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. Red sand, clay. Saline flats & depressions."
Prostrate perennial with hairy stems rooting at nodes. Flowers white or pink with a yellowish throat, from December to March.
Growing in large matted clumps on the steep slope of a hanging swamp regenerating after fire, and spreading into the more gently sloping reedy swamp area below. Upper Blue Mountains.
Described by Fairley & Moore as 'rare' in the Sydney region.
Habit: flic.kr/p/2kT1HNZ
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.
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.
'ohai.
Ripe pods!
Beautiful federally-listed endangered endemic Hawaiian species. This is the prostrate form from Ka Lae, Hawai'i Island.
This particular form of this variable species is my most favourite because of the subtle uniqueness of its leaf shape and the lovely yellow flowers which are normally red/orange.
This summer I diligently hand-pollinated each blossom so to get as as much seed as possible! 'ohai.
Prostrate,warm-season, perennial herb forming dense mats up to 1.6 m across. Stems are thick and woody. Grey, hairy, slightly succulent, roughly spoon-shaped leaves are alternately arranged along the stems and 4–25 mm long. Flowers are tiny white to pink, found in the leaf axils and have 5 "petals" and 10 stamens. Fruit are small (2-3 mm across) cup-shaped capsules containing a small number of seeds. Flowering is from spring through to autumn. Not very common, but may be locally abundant, especially in the Hunter Valley. Often forms dense mats on roadsides, lawns, wasteland, and other disturbed areas. Tolerates drought and soil salinity. Most commonly found in areas receiving summer rainfall, on loam soils. Does not persist in areas that are regularly and frequently grazed. Successfully planted to stabilise mine tailing dumps, but has spread from there.
Boraginaceae (forget-me-not family) » Coldenia procumbens
kol-DEN-ee-uh -- named for Cadwallader Colden, correspondent of Linnaeus
pro-KUM-benz -- lying along the ground
commonly known as: creeping coldenia • Gujarati: basario okharad • Hindi: त्रिपंखी tripankhi • Kannada: ಹಂಸಪಾದಿ hamsapaadi • Konkani: तिरपंखी tirpunkhi • Marathi: त्रिपक्षी tripakshi, त्रिपंखी tripankhi • Oriya: moyinibuta • Sanskrit: त्रिपक्षी tripakshi • Tamil: ஆற்றுச்செருப்படி arru-c-ceruppati, தலைவிரிச்சான் talai-viriccan • Telugu: హంసపాది hamsa-padi
Native range obscure: tropical Africa, India, Sri Lanka, s-e Asia, n Australia; naturalized elsewhere
References: Flowers of India • NPGS / GRIN • ENVIS - FRLHT • DDSA
Two Tibetan women prostrate themselves as they circumambulate Labrang Monastery performing a kora pilgrimage in Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in China's Gansu Province May 2, 2013. Photo by Tim Chong