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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
The prostrate stems branching from or near the base of the stem, along with the linear bracts subtending each of the flowers along an inflorescence spike that continues to elongate throughout the growing season, is distinctive of this species.
San pai, literally "three bows" is the ancestral practice of bowing as a mark of respect. After the first zazen session in the morning, the master makes and act of thanksgiving before the meal.
TRY-bew-lus -- three-pointed; referring to the three-pronged fruit ... Dave's Botanary
ter-RES-triss -- growing on the ground ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: cow's thorn, devil's thorn, goathead, land caltrops, puncture vine, small caltrops • Assamese: গোক্ষুৰ gokshura • Bengali: গোক্ষুর gokshura • Dogri: भक्खड़ा bakkhda • Gujarati: બેઠા ગોખરુ betha gokharu, ગોખરુ gokharu, મીઠા ગોખરુ mitha gokharu • Hindi: दूधिया भाजी dudhiya bhaji, गोखुरू gokhuru, गोक्षुर gokshura • Kachchhi: એકાંટી ekanti, મિઠા ગોખરુ mitha gokharu • Kannada: ನೆಗ್ಗಿಲು neggilu, ನೆರಿಗಿಲು nerigilu, ಸಣ್ಣ ನೆಗ್ಗಿಲು sanna neggilu • Konkani: ನೆಗಲ್ಮುಳ್ಳು negalmullu • Ladakhi: གཟེ་མ gze ma, kokulla, rasha • Malayalam: ചെറിയ ഞെരിഞ്ഞിൽ cheriya-njeringil, ഞെരിഞ്ഞിൽ njeringil, വയൽച്ചുള്ളി vayalchulli • Marathi: गोखरू gokharu, काटे गोखरू kate gokharu, गोक्षुर gokshura, लहान गोखरू lahan gokharu, सरांटा saranta • Nepali: गोखुर gokhur • Odia: ବ୍ୟାଳ ନଖ byala nakha, ଗୋଖୁର gokhura, ଗୋକ୍ଷୁର gokshura, କଣ୍ଟକଫଳ kantkaphala, ପଳଙ୍କଷା palankasha, ଷଡଙ୍ଗ shardanga, ଶୃଙ୍ଗାଟକ srungatka, ସ୍ୱାଦଂଷ୍ଟ୍ରା swadamshtra, ସ୍ୱାଦୁ କଣ୍ଟକ swadu kantaka, ତ୍ରିକଣ୍ଟ trikanta • Persian: خارخسک kharkhasek • Punjabi: ਭੱਖੜਾ bhakhra, ਲੋਤਕ lotak, ਪਕਡ਼ਾ pakra, ਫਨਗਰਾ phangra • Rajasthani: भंकरी bhankari, छोटा गोखरू chota gokharu, गोखरू gokharu, कांटी kanti • Sanskrit:अश्वदंष्ट्रा ashvadanshtra, बहुकण्टक bahukantaka, चलद्रुम chaladruma, चणद्रुम chanadruma, चित्रकण्टक chitrakantaka, गोखुर gokhura, गोक्षुर gokshura, पदन्यास padanyasa, श्वदंष्ट्रक shvadanshtraka, स्थलशृङ्गाट sthalashrngata, स्वादुकण्टक svadukantaka, त्रिकण्टक trikantaka, वनशृङ्गाट vanashrngata, व्याघ्रदंष्ट्र vyaghradanshtra, व्यालदंष्ट्रक vyaladanshtraka • Sindhi: گوکرو gokhiru, ٽِڪَنڊيِ tikandi • Tamil: அக்கிலு akkilu, அக்கினி akkini, அச்சுரம் accuram, அசுவதட்டிரம் acuva-tattiram, நெருஞ்சி nerunci • Telugu: చిన్న పల్లేరు chinna palleru, చిరు పల్లేరు chiru palleru, నీరుంజి nirunji, పల్లేరు palleru, పల్లేరు ముళ్ళు palleru mullu, సన్న నెగ్గిలుగిడ sanna neggilugida • Tibetan: གཟེ་མ gze ma • Tulu: ನೆಗ್ಗಿಲು ಮುಳ್ಳು neggilu mullu • Urdu: گوکهرو gokhuru, گوکشر gokshura
botanical names: Tribulus terrestris L. ... accepted infraspecifics: Tribulus terrestris var. terrestris ... heterotypic synonyms: Tribulus lanuginosus L. ... POWO, retrieved 15 November 2024
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throughout, including Lakshadweep islands
Names compiled / updated at Names of Plants in India.
Species from eastern North America
Common name: dollar-leaf, prostrate ticktrefoil
Photographed in Middle Fork Barrens Natural Area, Saline County, Arkansas
As an expression of humility, the men to be ordained prostrate themselves upon the altar as the Litany of the Saints is sung.
On Tuesday, May 17, 2016, Most Rev. David J. Walkowiak, bishop of Grand Rapids, ordained diocesan seminarians Kyle Kilpatrick, Stephen Durkee, and Steven Geerling as transitional deacons at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew. Transitional deacons are deacons preparing for the priesthood.
(Photos by Eric Tank)
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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.
Prostrate to semi-prostrate annual or perennial, herb, 0.02-0.3 m high, 0.3-2 m wide. Fl. yellow & orange/yellow & brown, Apr to Nov.
Prostrate figure by sculptor Antony Gormley, most famous for the giant "Angel of the North". This piece in Gloucester Cathedral's "Crucible" exhibition had a room of its own.
Featured plant foreground, background plant is Muehlenbeckia complexa.
Photographed at it's only location in New Zealand and the world, Kaitorete Spit, Canterbury.
Endemic to the gravelly sandy loam, stabilised sand dunes, and ridges of sand developed along the Kaitorete Spit.
Prostrate, densely branched shrub. Tiny white and purple flowers, scented.
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, 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.
This is a prostrate leaf form of what we have decided as H. coccineus from Namibia. It looks a little bleached out, most likely due to the paper bag that we put on top of it for controlled pollination.
It's easy to overlook rosemary flowers. They're not that big. I was surprised to find once I got in close that they look exotic as orchids in their way. The ants were enjoying them as much as the honeybees were.
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, 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.
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I was not 100% sure thinking this might have been an Abelmoschus species but thanks to pure ingenuity's prompt, I now realise this is a prostrate form of Hibiscus heterophyllus. Low growing in a form I had not come across before,and out in full exposure to the sea winds and sun alongside prostrate Grevillea banksii.
I would be interested to know if this plant could be found in or nearer to the Round Head or Agnes Waters areas of Littoral rainforest as I did not notice it there.
Trying to get last year's wildflowers identified before this spring! The seeds are a minor food for Sparrows and Morning Doves.
Pegasus and Dragon is a 100-foot (30 m) tall statue of Pegasus defeating a dragon in Gulfstream Park, Hallandale Beach, Florida. It is the 2nd tallest statue in the United States after the Statue of Liberty, and the 3rd tallest in U.S. territories after Puerto Rico's Birth of the New World. It is also the world's largest and tallest equine and european dragon statue. The Pegasus is poised with its front hoof on the neck of the dragon, which lies prostrate far below the level of the equine.[1] The statue complex is 200 feet in length and 115 feet in width. Pegasus is made of 330 tons of steel and 132 tons of bronze. The dragon is made of 110 tons of steel and 132 tons of bronze. Pegasus will feature a 5D dome theater in a rock formation underneath it. The dragon is surrounded by musical fountains. At night the statue will be home to a fountain show featuring 13 musical pieces, 350 fog nozzles, 116 water nozzles, special LED lighting and dragon breathing fire 20 feet during the show
(Wikipedia)
Erect or prostrate, tufted warm-season annual grass to 1 m tall. 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).
This wasn't the photo I had planned to night at all.
But I got phone call from my dad. We're heading to his new house in a few weeks, and he was asking what foods we eat, and what to get our son for his upcoming birthday.
And the other news.... he's going on the 9th for a biopsy of something they found on his prostrate. This is when the worry part of me kicks in.
Yes, it could absolutely be nothing at all, and he is fine. But this is my daddy, this is someone I have loved my entire life - even through all of the estrangement we've been through. Not to mention, this is the man whose brother is right now in the hospital recovering from chemotheraphy, having his entire immune system destroyed, and having a bone marrow transplant due to cancer.... for a SECOND time.
I have hope that it's nothing at all, but last time I talked to him, the levels they test for this, in his blood, were elevated. So the possibility is there. Here's to that hope, though.
The tenements and poorer sections of town were the hardest hit. Entire families lay prostrate with fever and fear. Neighbors were helping neighbors. Friends were visiting families to see if they were OK, or needed assistance. Some men stopped working at the mills and factories of the town to help in their neighborhoods. In one Monessen family, a father and seven children were in the hospital and the mother, unable to cope with fever and her stricken family, ended up at the County Home for the Insane. In another, six of the nine Bachovchins on Ontario Street were stricken with the influenza. If fell to Mary Bachovchin, age 10, to nurse the sick back to health. When the doctor visited he wanted to take some of the family to the hospital, but Mary "wept bitterly and begged to leave the family there, saying that she was getting along all right and could care for them." According to the Monessen News, she did, and they did.
During a trip to Prague it was impossible not to notice the many beggars on the streets and bridges, anywhere that they could get noticed. I christened them supplicants because of the way they prostrate themselves when asking for money. I don't know if is through embarrassment or the eastern European way of begging. Its not comfortable whatever being stuck on your elbows and knees for hours on end, and when I say hours I mean some of these guys stay like that for 5 hours and only move when money is placed in their cup. The supplicant then nods up and down vigorously saying what I can only assume is thank you.
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.
The bishops-elect lay prostrate while others kneel during the Litany of the Saints, praying for the intercession of the saints on their behalf. Cardinal William Keeler, archbishop-emeritus of Baltimore, kneels at left.
Cardinal Seán O'Malley was to ordain Bishop Arthur L. Kennedy, Ph.D., and Bishop Peter J. Uglietto, S.T.D., as Auxiliary Bishops for the Archdiocese of Boston on Tuesday, September 14, at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. The ordination was to be followed by a reception at St. John Seminary for the two new bishops.
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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.
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
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.
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:
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.
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.
Cape Bailey, Botany Bay National Park, New South Wales -- about 20 km SSE of Sydney.
Normally a tree to 20 m or more tall, this species has produced these remarkable mutant plants on a number of exposed headlands and clifftops along the NSW coast. These mounds of prostrate stems are so dense you can walk over them. I have never seen them producing flowers or fruiting 'cones', so it's a mystery how the form has managed to spread. The normal C. glauca is notable for its salt-tolerance, often growing where the groundwater is brackish.
Introduced, cool season, annual, prostrate, erect or ascending, hairless or sparsely hairy legume with branches to 60 cm long. Leaves are trifoliolate, wih leaflets ± obovate, toothed and 4–15 mm long. Flowerheads are umbel-like, 6–12 mm long and many-flowered. Flowers occur on minute pedicels and are erect to deflexed after anthesis. Petalsare 3–6 mm long, longer than the sepals, pink and not persistent. Fruit are woolly. Flowering i in spring. Widely naturalised, mostly on the Tablelands and Slopes.
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.
VA State Flag
From Wikipedia:
The flag of the Commonwealth of Virginia consists of the seal of Virginia against a blue background. The current version of the flag was adopted at the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861. The flag may be decorated with a white fringe along the fly.[1]
The Latin motto, "Sic semper tyrannis," at the bottom of the state seal means "Thus Always to Tyrants." This quote is attributed to Brutus during the assassination of Julius Caesar in Rome. The woman is "Virtus the genius of the Commonwealth, dressed as an Amazon" (Code of Virginia § 1-500) and represents Virginia. The prostrate man represents tyranny; note the fallen crown to the right. The tyrant is holding both a chain and a scourge.
The General Assembly of Virginia adopted an official salute to the flag of Virginia in 1954. It reads:
“ I salute the flag of Virginia,
with reverence and patriotic devotion
to the ‘Mother of States and Statesmen,’
which it represents—the ‘Old Dominion,’
where liberty and independence were born.[2]
”
In 2001, the North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) surveyed its members on the designs of the 72 U.S. state, U.S. territorial and Canadian provincial flags. NAVA's members ranked Virginia's flag 54th out of the 72.[3]
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.
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.