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With a common name of Triplet Babingtonia due to it only having 3 stamens. All other Babingtonia plants have more.
Native, warm-season, perennial, prostrate and hairless herb, often forming dense mats. Occurs on the edge of freshwater or brackish pools or streams, sometimes submerged. Very palatable to stock and of high feed quality. Here growing with sea rush (Juncus kraussii) in the background and water couch (Paspalum distichum) in the foreground.
Introduced, warm-season, annual, erect or prostrate, tufted grass to 1 m tall. Leaves are flat, hairless (except for a few scattered hairs near the base) and usually have a pale midrib. There is no ligule. Flowerheads are an erect primary axis of racemes (to 22 cm long) with relatively short branches; with conspicuous hairs in the axils and along the racemes. Spikelets are 2.5-4 mm long and 2 flowered (fertile lemma smooth and shiny), with the apices ending abruptly in a short point or having an awn to 5 cm long. Flowers during the warmer months. Possibly a native of Asia, it is a common weed of disturbed areas, especially where there is excess moisture (e.g. wasteland, agricultural land, riverbanks, drains, shallow/drying swamps). An indicator of disturbed moist areas. A weed of summer crops. Produces palatable and good quality feed when grazed during early growth stages, but becomes harsh and unpalatable when mature. Toxic levels of nitrate can accumulate in the plant; this is especially dangerous when the plant is wilted and more attractive to stock. Rarely managed individually in pastures due to its low abundance in coastal pastures. Will decrease where dense ground cover is maintained over summer.
"Prostrate to ascending or erect shrub, 0.05-1 m high. Fl. white-cream-blue-purple, Jun to Dec or Jan to Feb. Sand, gravel, laterite, limestone. Sand dunes & plains." florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/12585
Photos: Fred and Jean
Introduced, cool-season, annual, prostrate legume; may grow to 50 cm tall under good conditions. Leaves have 3 oval to heart-shaped leaflets; each hairless, 10-20 mm long and with serrations towards the tip. The stalk of central leaflet is longer than the lateral ones. Flowerheads consist of 1-3 yellow pea-like flowers in the leaf axils. Burrs are coiled and have hooked spines (rarely spineless). Flowers in late winter and spring. A native of the Mediterranean, it is occasional on floodplains and in disturbed areas (e.g. roadsides) on the coast where the soils are heavier and slightly acid to alkaline. Rarely abundant on the coast, but a valuable legume in inland low to medium rainfall areas. It is palatable and nutritious, and can provide some useful autumn-spring feed after adequate cool season rain. If consumed in excessive quantities it can cause bloat and photosensitisation.
Introduced, ascending to prostrate, hairy, herbaceous legume to 50 cm tall. Stems are usually branched. Leaves have 19–35 leaflets, 4–13 mm long and 3–6 mm wide. Stipules are about 2 mm long. Flowerheads are 2–5-flowered umbels on peduncles 25–55 mm long. Calyx is 4–6 mm long, hairy, with teeth ± equal. Corolla is pink to white and about 7 mm long. Pods are compressed 12–25 mm long, constricted between seeds, and with a beak about 2 mm long. Flowering is in early spring. A native of Spain & Portugal, it is rare on the coast.
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.
August 2, 2009
First Day of Novena to St. Philomena
Illustrious Virgin and Martyr, St. Philomena, behold me prostrate before the throne whereupon it has pleased the Most Holy Trinity to place you. Full of confidence in your protection, I entreat you to intercede for me with God, from the heights of Heaven deign to cast a glance upon your humble client! Spouse of Christ, sustain me in suffering, fortify me in temptation, protect me in the dangers surrounding me, and obtain for me the graces necessary to me. Above all, assist me at the hour of my death. St, Philomena, powerful with God, pray for us. Amen.
O faithful Virgin and glorious Martyr, St. Philomena, who works so many miracles on behalf of the poor and sorrowing, have pity on me. You know the multitude and diversity of my needs. Behold me at your feet, full of misery, but full of hope. I entreat your charity, O great saint! Graciously hear me and obtain from God a favorable answer to the request which I now humbly lay before you (here mention your petitions). I am firmly convinced that through your merits, through the scorn, the sufferings and the death you endured, united to the merits of the Passion and death of Jesus, your Spouse, I shall ontain what I ask of you, and in the joy of my heart I will bless God, who is admirable in his Saints. Amen.
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.
Sprengelia "sp. Mt Field" (prostrate swampheath) growing in cushion herbfield on Mt Sprent, Southwest National Park, Tasmania.
Introduced, warm-season, annual or short-lived perennial, prostrate herb covered in stiff hairs. Stems are mostly more than 15 cm long. Leaves are opposite, hairy, elliptical to ovate, 0.5-5 cm long and 0.8-2.8 cm wide. Flowerheads are heads of 20 (or more) small (3-8 mm long) white flowers, mostly with 6 petals and 6 sepals (can be 5-7). Flowering is from late winter to autumn. A native of South America, it is a weed of disturbed places, such as river flats, stockyards and roadsides. An indicator of disturbance and poor ground cover. Of little importance to livestock grazing, as it usually occurs in low abundance, is very low growing and produces little bulk. Control is not required; abundance is suppressed with healthy vigorous pastures.
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.
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.
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
Cathair Uí Murchú (Cashel Murphy)
Gleann Fán
At Main Entrance looking across courtyard and to huts at far end (1) and to right (4).
"Caher Murphy/Cathair Mhurfaí: This oval cashel (National Monument no. 156/1-5) is situated on the S slopes of Mount Eagle overlooking Dingle Bay. Much of its interior is occupied by a group of 5 roughly circular, conjoined clochauns, and a 6th irregularly-shaped structure. A souterrain passage extends from one of these huts to a chamber beneath the cashel wall. The site has been considerably restored by the OPW, and, during restoration work in the 19th century, an elaborate cross-slab was discovered; this is now housed in the NMI. A fragment of the upper stone of a rotary quern was also found lying loose within the cashel.
"(1, Far End) This circular, drystone-built clochaun opens off the NW corner of the courtyard. There is possible evidence for a paved pathway between its entrance and that to the adjacent hut. This hut measures 5.4m in diameter internally and the corbelled wall stands to a maximum height of 1.75m. Directly N of the entrance there is a recess in the wall which may mark the former location of the cross-slab. This latter apparently acted as a jamb stone on this inner, N side of the entrance (Macalister 1899, 256).
"(4, right with entrance to 5 seen) An entrance passage on the N side of the courtyard leads directly to a circular hut, 4.7m in diameter internally. The drystone-built wall stands to a maximum height of 2m and is only very slightly corbelled. The entrance passage is 1.7m long and .7m wide at base narrowing to .52m at top. The 2 entrances at NW and SE lead into other huts. A stone-lined pit in the centre of this structure is probably a hearth site. Two stones on edge and a prostrate slab in the W part of the interior appear to define a passage leading to the entance to clochaun (#5) at NW."
J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 568
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.
Common name: Hong Kong Asarum 香港細辛
Family: Aristolochiaceae 馬兜鈴科
Origin: Hong Kong
Status in China: Critically endangered (CR)
Perennial herbs, with long prostrate rhizomes; roots more or less fleshy, aromatic. Leaves slightly leathery, ovate-heart-shaped or ovate, 6-11 cm long, 5-8 cm wide, apex acute, base deeply cordate, margin slightly revolute, densely ciliate, glabrous on both surfaces, glossy above, basal veins 7; petioles 12-30 cm long. Flowers solitary, purplish green; pedicels glabrous, 1.5-4 cm long; throat more or less constricted, without membranous circle inside; tube broadly ovoid or subglobose; limb patent, 3-lobed; lobes broadly ovate, ca. 1.5 cm long, 1.2 cm wide; stamens 12, filaments shorter than anthers. Ovary nearly superior, styles 6, apex bifid, stigma ovate.
性味：味苦、辛、性溫，有小毒
功能：祛風散寒，止咳消痰，止痛。
Ref: www.hkherbarium.net/Herbarium/html text/21Asarum hongkongense.htm
www.ngensis.com/flora/asarum.htm
forev.net/index.php?pid=358888
Native, warm-season, annual or short-lived perennial, prostrate to erect, aromatic herb covered with glandular and other hairs. Leaves are elliptic to ovate, lamina to 30 mm long, sinuate to entire; petioles are usually shorter than the blades. Flowerheads consist of few- to many-flowered axillary clusters. Flowers are bisexual or female and about 1 mm across; perianth segments 5, free to base, keeled or inflated upwards, hairy towards apex, often spathulate; stamen 1 or 0. Flowering is in summer. Grows in woodlands and open areas in eucalypt forest and rainforests. Becomes a weed of cultivation. Suspected of poisoning stock.
Introduced, warm-season, perennial, prostrate herb covered in stiff hairs. Stems are to 15 cm long. Leaves are opposite, hairy, narrow-ovate to ovate,0.5-2 cm long and 0.3-1 cm wide. Flowerheads are heads of up to 15 small white flowers, mostly with 4 petals and sepals. Flowering is from spring to autumn. A native of South America, it is a weed in coastal districts south from Newcastle in disturbed places, such as over-grazed pastures, stockyards and roadsides. An indicator of disturbance and poor ground cover. Of little importance to livestock grazing, as it usually occurs in low abundance, is very low growing and produces little bulk. Control is not required; abundance is suppressed with healthy vigorous pastures.
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, warm-season, annual, erect or prostrate, tufted grass to 1 m tall. Leaves are flat, hairless (except for a few scattered hairs near the base) and usually have a pale midrib. There is no ligule. Flowerheads are an erect primary axis of racemes (to 22 cm long) with relatively short branches; with conspicuous hairs in the axils and along the racemes. Spikelets are 2.5-4 mm long and 2 flowered (fertile lemma smooth and shiny), with the apices ending abruptly in a short point or having an awn to 5 cm long. Flowers during the warmer months. Possibly a native of Asia, it is a common weed of disturbed areas, especially where there is excess moisture (e.g. wasteland, agricultural land, riverbanks, drains, shallow/drying swamps). An indicator of disturbed moist areas. A weed of summer crops. Produces palatable and good quality feed when grazed during early growth stages, but becomes harsh and unpalatable when mature. Toxic levels of nitrate can accumulate in the plant; this is especially dangerous when the plant is wilted and more attractive to stock. Rarely managed individually in pastures due to its low abundance in coastal pastures. Will decrease where dense ground cover is maintained over summer.
Species from eastern North America
Common name: dollar-leaf, prostrate ticktrefoil
Photographed in Middle Fork Barrens Natural Area, Saline County, Arkansas
Featuring a group of cloaked women prostrated beneath a large red sign, Sale Ends was first created in 2006 for Banksy’s iconic American show Barely Legal, which took place in a warehouse in Los Angeles in September 2006.
Part of the Barely Legal Print Set series, the work was made as an edition of 100 unsigned prints and sold at the show for $500 apiece. Further prints in the series included Morons, Applause, Trolleys, Grannies and Festival and together the set is considered to be one of the rarest and most valuable collections of street art on the market.
A seventh print depicting an aristocrat being hit in the face with a pie was supposed to complete the collection, but the piece was later dropped. In 2007 Pictures on Walls re-released Sale Ends with an additional 150 signed Sale Ends prints.
Introduced, cool-season, annual, prostrate legume; may grow to 50 cm tall under good conditions. Leaves have 3 oval to heart-shaped leaflets; each hairless, 10-20 mm long and with serrations towards the tip. The stalk of central leaflet is longer than the lateral ones. Flowerheads consist of 1-3 yellow pea-like flowers in the leaf axils. Burrs are coiled and have hooked spines (rarely spineless). Flowers in late winter and spring. A native of the Mediterranean, it is occasional on floodplains and in disturbed areas (e.g. roadsides) on the coast where the soils are heavier and slightly acid to alkaline. Rarely abundant on the coast, but a valuable legume in inland low to medium rainfall areas. It is palatable and nutritious, and can provide some useful autumn-spring feed after adequate cool season rain. If consumed in excessive quantities it can cause bloat and photosensitisation.
Native, warm-season, perennial prostrate to twining herb. Stems are relatively weak and may be herbaceous or woody (more so at the base). Leaves are usually less than 20mm long, with at least some narrow-sagittate, sagittate or hastate. Flowerheads rarely have sterile spine-like branches Flowers are small, green and 5 lobed. Fruit are subglobose, succulent and orange to red. Flowering can be year-round, but is mostly in summer and autumn. Found in woodlands and forests, mostly at the base of shrubs and trees.
Introduced, warm-season, annual to short-lived perennial, low-growing, prostrate to ascending, hairy legume. Leaves have 5 leaflets, each narrow-ovate to lanceolate, hairy and 5-20 mm long. Flowerheads have 2-4 yellow pea-like flowers (about 7 mm long) in the leaf axils. Pods are narrow, cylindrical and 6-15 mm long. Flowering is in spring and summer. A native of the Mediterranean region, it is widespread in grasslands. Provides a low yield of high quality feed, with a low bloat risk. Adapted to low fertility soils and shows low to moderate response to applied phosphorus. It is slow to establish and has slow initial growth, but is tolerant of heavy continuous grazing.
Introduced, warm-season, annual to short-lived perennial, low-growing, prostrate to ascending, hairy legume. Leaves have 5 leaflets, each narrow-ovate to lanceolate, hairy and 5-20 mm long. Flowerheads have 2-4 yellow pea-like flowers (about 7 mm long) in the leaf axils. Pods are narrow, cylindrical and 6-15 mm long. Flowering is in spring and summer. A native of the Mediterranean region, it is widespread in grasslands. Provides a low yield of high quality feed, with a low bloat risk. Adapted to low fertility soils and shows low to moderate response to applied phosphorus. It is slow to establish and has slow initial growth, but is tolerant of heavy continuous grazing.
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
This is a prostrate shrub growing to 0.4m flowering Aug - Nov in laterite soils.
The peas have been very special this year. Here are a few.
Photos: Fred
A resinous prostrate Rock Nettle, native to northwestern Mexico. Photo from Batopilas Canyon, Chihuahua State.
'ohai.
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!
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.
Prostrate perennial knawel (Scleranthus perennis spp. prostratus) in flower. This species is globally restricted to the Breckland area of Norfolk and Suffolk. It is unable to compete with more vigorous plants such as grasses. The sandy, nutrient-poor soils of the Brecks heaths and its dynamic, steppe-like climate provide the conditions that Prostrate perennial knawel requires. Back from the Brink Primary Species, 'Shifting Sands' project, Suffolk, UK. July.
Credit: Alex Hyde / Back from the Brink
Introduced, cool-season, annual, prostrate legume; may grow to 50 cm tall under good conditions. Leaves have 3 oval to heart-shaped leaflets; each hairless, 10-20 mm long and with serrations towards the tip. The stalk of central leaflet is longer than the lateral ones. Flowerheads consist of 1-3 yellow pea-like flowers in the leaf axils. Burrs are coiled and have hooked spines (rarely spineless). Flowers in late winter and spring. A native of the Mediterranean, it is occasional on floodplains and in disturbed areas (e.g. roadsides) on the coast where the soils are heavier and slightly acid to alkaline. Rarely abundant on the coast, but a valuable legume in inland low to medium rainfall areas. It is palatable and nutritious, and can provide some useful autumn-spring feed after adequate cool season rain. If consumed in excessive quantities it can cause bloat and photosensitisation.