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Introduced, cool season, annual, hairy, prostrate to ascending legume with branches to 90 cm long. Leaves are trifoliolate; leaflets obovate to obcordate, toothed towards the apex, densely hairy when young and sometimes with darker flecks. Flowerheads are 1- or 2-flowered. Flowers are yellow. Pods are coiled burrs. A native of Europe and western Asia, it occurs in pastures, disturbed ground, road edges, along water courses and on flats around swamps and lakes.
Introduced warm-season perennial tufted, sometimes stoloniferous, C4 grass; stems are erect, geniculate to prostrate, relatively brittle, to 70 cm tall and with a ring of glands below the nodes. Leaf blades are soft and sheaths are hairless or with tubercle-based hairs (i.e. with small wart-like outgrowths at their base); there are rigid 2-4 mm long hairs either side of the ligule. Flowerheads are contacted panicles at first, becoming open panicles at maturity and 8-27 cm long; lower branches are whorled, hairs are only found in the axils of the main stem and the lower ones sometimes have a brown ring of glands below them. Spikelets are 4-5.5 mm long and 1-1.5 mm wide, usually 3-7 flowered, flattened, unawned and with lemmas 1.5-1.8 mm long. Flowers in summer and autumn. A native of Africa, it grows on well-drained gravel to sandy loams in disturbed and overgrazed areas, especially roadsides. Found as far south as Wellington. Thought to have been brought in as a seed contaminant of Eragrostis curvula, it is spreading along roadsides on the north west slopes. Of no importance to livestock as it currently mostly grows on roadsides. Grows in same habitat as Eragrostis curvula and Eragrostis pilosa and often mistaken for these species. This plant has recently been mown.
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.
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.
Variegated thistle (*Silybum marianum). (The semi-prostrate blue leaves of artichoke thistle are shown between the taller clumps of this species.)
Gould Creek, City of Playford, South Australia.
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.
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The owner has contacted me today and believes this plant is Grevillea 'Golden Lyre' but he is however a little uncertain.
He reminded me that I was actually with him when he purchased it. I just don't recall unfortunately.
Alternatively it could be Grevillea 'Cooroora Cascade'.
Any assistance to confirm the ID of this prostrate growing Grevillea growing on a friend's property at Myocum just west of Byron Bay is appreciated.
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.
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.
Picea abies 'Vermont Gold' (Greg Williams, VT 1990s) Photo: F.D.Richards, SE Michigan, 3/2021 - Prostrate Norway Spruce, PYE-see-uh AY-beez, Size at 10 years: 6in.x4’, golden, USDA Hardiness Zone 3, In Garden Bed N3,13 for 22 MONTHS (Stanley). Planted in 2019.
American Conifer Society: Picea abies 'Vermont Gold' is a broadly spreading, slow-growing selection of Norway spruce with layered branches and golden-yellow foliage that looks its best when given 3 to 4 hours of morning sun. If grown in shade, plants will appears greenish yellow and if grown in full sun young plants will burn badly.
After 10 years of growth, a mature specimen will measure 2 feet (60 cm) tall and 4 feet (1.3 m) wide, an annual growth rate of 4 to 6 inches (10 - 15 cm).
This cultivar originated as a golden branch sport found on a specimen of P. abies 'Repens' in the mid-1990s by Greg Williams of Kate Brook Nursery, Wolcott, Vermont, USA. It was first listed under the illegitimate name, 'Repens Aurea' and later changed. Another illegitimate synonym is 'Repens Gold.'
Stanley & Sons Nursery: A prostrate, golden form of Norway Spruce. Leaves solid gold and normal size. Plant completely prostrate. Old name of cultivar is `Picea abies `Repens Aurea'. Grows 4 to 6 inches a year. Found and introduced by Greg Williams.
Additional photos of this plant from 2019, 20, 21:
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.
pilgrim on their way to Lhasa.. The Tibetan kowtow is a ritual in Tibetan Buddhism. Palms put together, Tibetans prostrate themselves on the ground, with the head, arms, and knees down on the ground, and move forward slowly, following every step with a kowtow. This is the way to express their most honest hearts to the Buddha, as they walk from their hometown to Lhasa. During the long journey, they wear wooden kneepads to protect their knees and fur to ward off dust on their faces, and kowtow every three steps until they arrive in Lhasa.
My blog about Tibet
Tibet - Day 1 ( Bayi – Rulang – Bomi)
Tibet - Day 2 (bomi-midui Gracier – Ranwu)
Tibet - Day 3 (Ranwu – Bomi – Rulang – Bayi)
Tibet - Day 4 ( Bayi – Basomtso – Lhasa)
Tibet - Day 7 (Lhasa – Gyantse – Shigatse)
Hibbertia riparia complex., prostrate plant on sandstone substrate, Darlington Range near Canungra SEQLD AU.....ID? two carpels surrounded by c.25 stamens, 4-7mm long leaves with some hairs, apiculate tips, rolled margins, mid rib raised in height equal to margin rolls...
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
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.
St Giles, Great Maplestead, Essex
A charming, idiosyncratic church, not far from its more famous Little Maplestead neighbour in the Essex/Suffolk borderlands. The cruciform church with its western tower sits on a mound, and even on a sunny day you step inside to gloom and mystery flanked by low Victorian aisles.
All seems normal at first, apart perhaps from the Norman apsed chancel beyond the crossing, but when you turn into the south transept you come face to face with two of the most striking and unusual 17th Century memorials in East Anglia. These are to the Deane family of Dyne Hall. On the eastern side lies Sir John Deane, grumpily propping himself up on his elbow. His children are arranged like chess pieces above him.
Opposite lies Anne, Lady Deane, on the western side of the transept. Her memorial shows her son, the donor, lying here prostrate at her feete, while she stands life-size in her shroud, apparently in triumph, one foot on his body. She raises her hand to where a cherub is sounding the Last Trump from the cloudy canopy of Heaven. Meanwhile, two angels lower a crown onto her head from a gap in the vault. The inscription reads:
Her Shape was rare, Her Beauty exquisit.
Her entertainment hearty, Her Conversation lovely,
Her Courses modest, Her Discourses wise,
Her Practise holy, Her religion pure,
Her Faith unfaygnd, Her Hope stable,
Her Wytt accurate, Her Judgment singular.
Her Harte merciful, Her Hand helpful.
Her Charity heavenly, Her Amity constant.
Her Vowes Lawful, Her Meditations divine.
Her Prayers devout, Her Devotions diurnail.
Her Dayes short, Her Life everlasting.
Quite what Freud would have made of it is anyone's guess.
Prostrate Tick-trefoil (Desmodium rotundifolium) is a fairly unusual plant of rich, acidic woodlands in Massachusetts.
Introduced, cool-season, annual, low-growing, hairless legume, with prostrate to ascending stems. Leaves have 3 leaflets, each oblong to ovate and 8-16 mm long. The central leaflet has a distinctly longer stalk than the lateral ones. Flowerheads are dense, rounded clusters (8-15 mm long) of 20-40 yellow, inflated, pea-like flowers. Pods are oblong and 1-2 mm long. Flowering is in spring. A native of Europe, the Mediterranean and West Asia, it is found in pastures, woodlands and roadsides; although more common on roadsides than in grazed pastures. Usually found on coarse-textured low-fertility soils where groundcover is reduced. Generally only found at low densities in pastures. Provides good quality feed, but it is not very productive.
Dorycnium pentaphyllum ssp. germanicum (Gremli) Gams, syn.: Dorycnium germanicum (Gremli) Rikli, Dorycnium sericeum(Neilr.) Borbàs, Lotus dorycnium L.
Family: Fabaceae
EN: Prostrate Canary Clover, DE: Seiden-Backenklee, Deutscher Backenklee
Slo.: malocvetna španska detelja
Dat.: June 17. 2008
Lat.: 45.81838 Long.: 13.60392
Code: Bot_0273/2008_DSC9717
Habitat: stony grassland partly overgrown with bushes and scattered trees; moderately steep mountain slope, south aspect; calcareous ground; warm, dry, sunny, open place elevation 130 m (430 feet); average precipitations 1.500-1.600 mm/year, average temperature 12-13 deg C, Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region.
Substratum: skeletal soil.
Place: Next to the trail from village Sela na Krasu to border crossing Klariči between Slovenia and Italy; west of village Brestovica pri Komnu, Brestoviški dol, Primorska, Slovenia EC.
Comment: The clover Dorycnium pentaphyllum ssp. germanicum is mainly distributed around Mediterranean Sea, mostly in the European southeast part of the region. The plant is often treated on species level (Ref.:3 ) as Dorycnium germanicum. Flora Europaea, Euro+Med Plantbase and IUCN use the proposed name (subspecies level), local floras mostly use the name Dorycnium germanicum.
In Slovenia only two species of genus Dorycnium are known, the alternative taxon being Dorycnium herbaceum Will., which is distinctively taller and different from Dorycnium pentaphyllum ssp. germanicum (Ref.:3). So, the determination of these pictures seems quite reliable but the naming remains an open question.
Ref.:
(1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 571.
(2) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 308.
(3) K. Janša, Revision of the genus Dorycnium in Slovenia (in Slovenian), Graduation thesis at the University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Biology dep. (2008).
This prostrate exotic annual forb flowers during middle to late summer and is most abundant on moderately disturbed settings such as roadsides and margins of gravelly draws. This site lies in a gravelly wash in the Wyoming big sagebrush steppe of the Idaho National Laboratory, east of Lincoln Blvd and off Seven Mile Road, Butte County, Idaho.
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.
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, cool season, annual or short-lived perennial, prostrate, spreading herb. Leaves are rhombic to lanceolate, semi-succulent and to 10 cm long. Flowers are small, 4-5-lobed and yellowish. Fruit are woody and winged. Flowering is from late winter to early summer. Mostly grows along margins of salt marshes and in protected sites along the coast, but is found in all parts of New South Wales and across Australia.
a lady lays prostrate, begging cup held out towards the affluent streets of Edinburgh as people go about their daily lives
Introduced, cool-season, annual, low-growing, hairless legume, with prostrate to ascending stems. Leaves have 3 leaflets, each oblong to ovate and 8-16 mm long. The central leaflet has a distinctly longer stalk than the lateral ones. Flowerheads are dense, rounded clusters (8-15 mm long) of 20-40 yellow, inflated, pea-like flowers. Pods are oblong and 1-2 mm long. Flowering is in spring. A native of Europe, the Mediterranean and West Asia, it is found in pastures, woodlands and roadsides; although more common on roadsides than in grazed pastures. Usually found on coarse-textured low-fertility soils where groundcover is reduced. Generally only found at low densities in pastures. Provides good quality feed, but it is not very productive.
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.
Prostrate Knotweed (Polygonum aviculare) a/k/a Yard Knotweed, Doorweed. Near Tenaya Lake. Yosemite National Park. Mariposa Co., Calif.
Introduced, cool-season, annual, low-growing, hairless legume, with prostrate to ascending stems. Leaves have 3 leaflets, each oblong to ovate and 8-16 mm long. The central leaflet has a distinctly longer stalk than the lateral ones. Flowerheads are dense, rounded clusters (8-15 mm long) of 20-40 yellow, inflated, pea-like flowers. Pods are oblong and 1-2 mm long. Flowering is in spring. A native of Europe, the Mediterranean and West Asia, it is found in pastures, woodlands and roadsides; although more common on roadsides than in grazed pastures. Usually found on coarse-textured low-fertility soils where groundcover is reduced. Generally only found at low densities in pastures. Provides good quality feed, but it is not very productive.
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.
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.
Prostrate perennial knawel (Scleranthus perennis spp. prostratus) in flower., photographed against a white background in the field. 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