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Pilgrims who repeatedly prostrate themselves, make a Tibetan prayer gesture, raise their hands in prayer, and lay down on the ground, their arms extended in front of them. Then they stand up and place their feet where their fingertips had just touched and repeat the process again. Those that do this often wear knee pads, aprons and canvas shoes on their hands.
Native cool-season annual or short-lived perennial herb with prostrate or weakly erect stems which root at the nodes and are sparsely covered in long white hairs. Leaves are 1-2 times divided, 1-4 cm long and sparsely hairy to nearly hairless. Flowerheads consist of solitary heads held above the leaves on slender stalks. Heads are hemispherical, 4-5 mm wide and usually creamy to yellow-green. Fruit are 1–1.5 mm long and flattened, with narrow thickened wings or wingless. Flowers in winter and spring. Found in moist, often disturbed, areas of lawns, grasslands, woodlands and grassy forests. Native biodiversity. An indicator of bare ground and reduced competition. A minor species of pastures, being most common in short, moist areas. Of little importance to stock, as it produces little bulk, is not readily eaten and is rarely abundant.
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.
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.
Euphorbia humistrata, Prostrate Spurge
Weed ID at the Sustainable Flatbush Community Garden at the Flatbush Reformed Church
Introduced, warm season, annual or short-lived perennial, prostrate herb with reddish stems to 80cm long and a woody taproot. Leaves consist of 4-8 pairs of leaflets (4-12mm long); leaflets are dark green above and silvery-grey below; hairs mostly restricted to the midrib and margins. Solitary flowers in the axils are small, bright yellow and 5-petalled. Fruit have 5 segments each bearing short hard spines. Flowers from spring to autumn. A weed in pastures and fallowed cropping country. Often found around sheds, laneways and roadsides. In urban areas it is regarded as a nuisance weed on footpaths and playing fields. It easily attaches to machinery, tyres, animals and shoes aiding its spread. The spiny fruit can cause vegetable fault in wool and lameness to stock. Becomes dominant when other vegetation is removed by fallows, droughts or overgrazing. Prevention of spread is the best control measure. Establish competitive pastures to outcompete catheads. A wide range of herbicides can be used. Grazing with cattle is preferred as photosensitisation, nitrate poisoning and staggers in sheep have been known to occur.
Centenary Wood 7/7/2020
Ononis repens or common restharrow is a plant species of the genus Ononis.
Description
It is a prostrate (maximum height 60cm) woody perennial, spreading by rhizomes.[1] It has hairy stems and small oval leaves with toothed edges. Leaflets are less than 3 times as long as wide. It occasionally has soft, weak spines, but never hard spines like those of Ononis spinosa.[2] The leaves are covered in glandular hairs which give a resinous smell on bruising. Plants are hermaphroditic.[3] The zygomorphic flowers are pink and unscented, 15–20mm, blooming from June to September.[4]
Habitat and distribution
It is found by the sea shore, on cliffs and dunes and is also common in grasslands and dry hill pastures in chalk or limestone areas, over light, well-drained soils. It may occasionally grow on roadside verges or beside railways.[5][6][7]
The species is native to Europe including the UK and Ireland. Its distribution spreads as far south as Morocco and as far east as Poland. It has declined in some parts of Britain but populations are generally stable. Although the species is very widespread, its distribution is often localised, due to its preference for particular soil conditions[8][9]
Ecology
A rare species of moth, Aplasta ononaria is specialised to lay its eggs only on common restharrow.[10]
Ononis repens is pollinated by bees.[11][12]
Like other species in the order Fabales, Ononis repens fixes nitrogen into soil from the air, promoting the growth of other plants.[13]
Culinary use
Ononis repens is related to liquorice and its roots have a very similar flavour. A liquorice flavour drink can be made by soaking the roots in cold water, and historically the young shoots have been used as a vegetable, boiled or in salads.[14]
Etymology
The English common name 'restharrow' comes from the plant's propensity to stop horse-drawn farming implements, with its hard, woody roots.[15] The word 'ononis' or 'anonis' has been used for restharrow since classical Greece and Rome and has been suggested to stem from the Ancient Greek onos for donkey because it was used to feed donkeys.[16][17] The species epithet repens is Latin for creeping, referring to the growth habit of the plant
Pilgrims who repeatedly prostrate themselves, make a Tibetan prayer gesture, raise their hands in prayer, and lay down on the ground, their arms extended in front of them. Then they stand up and place their feet where their fingertips had just touched and repeat the process again. Those that do this often wear knee pads, aprons and canvas shoes on their hands.
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, 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.
These are cultivated plants from northwestern Lāna`i.
Heteropogon contortus (Linnaeus) P. Beauvois ex Roemer and Schultes
Hawaiian names: pili
Common names: twisted beardgrass, tanglehead
Family: Poaceae
Heteropogon contortus is widely distributed outside of Hawai`i. There are two types of the species in Hawai`i, a common and widespread erect type, and a prostrate type found in only a few areas. The erect type of H. contortus occurs on all of the main Hawaiian Islands. The prostrate type only occurs in a few areas where the prevailing trade winds are stronger than normal. I have seen it in the wild only on northwestern Moloka`i (east of Mo`omomi), northwestern Lāna`i, and on Hawai`i in the area of Kalae. On Moloka`i and at Kalae, where the prostrate type was seen, it was the only type present. On northwestern Lāna`i, however, the prostrate and erect types occurred together.
Prostrate pigweed (Amaranthus albus), Amaranth family (Amaranthaceae).
Red Pine Trail, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah; elevation 2358 m.
Native, warm-season, perennial, tufted, prostrate to erect grass to 1 m tall. Stem nodes are (virtually) hairless. Mostly found on hillslopes and drier, low fertility soils that are not too acid. More common in the south of coastal NSW. Increases in abundance with over-grazing as it readily colonises bare and disturbed areas.
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.
Water Willow is a slender, often tufted, prostrate or ascending, branched perennial herb.
The herb contains a bitter alkaloid and that it is used as a substitute for Fumaria. It is alternative and expectorant and is given in the form of infusion (1 to 20) in asthma, coughs, and rheumatism. The juice of the leaves is squeezed into the eyes in cases of ophthalmia. The odor of the whole plant is unpleasant; it is used in decoction for backache, plethora, and flatulence.
Taken at Kadavoor, Kerala, India
www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Water%20Willow.html
[Thanks Vietnam Plants / Phuong Tran for the ID.]
Occasional and locally abundant in the Bozeman area, prostrate pigweed like other species in the genus requires sites with high levels of disturbance, such as this site that was recently landscaped. The long attenuate spine-tipped flower bracts that surpass the length of the tepals enclosed distinguish this species from the similar Amaranthus blitoides. This site lies along West Harrison Street on the Montana State University campus, Bozeman.
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.
Lying prostrate on your stomach (atop rocks, I might add!) in order to catch an upward glance at a mere flower, is not the most appealing of positions to take. However, I find that many photos taken with this down-to-earth-up-to-heaven perspective are quite appealing, so I decided to try my luck!
Taken specifically for this week's "Weekly Theme Challenge" - Life in the Undergrowth.
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
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.
'ohai.
Beautiful federally-listed endangered endemic Hawaiian species. This is the prostrate form from Molokini island.
Lhasa Tibet
The Barkhor Plaza & Jokhang Temple
The Pilgrims prostrating in front of the temple.
Legs are bound and tied with rope.
Introduced cool-season annual tufted grass to 100 cm tall. Juvenile growth is prostrate, but stems are mostly erect or with a bend near the base. Leaves are 3-8 mm wide and sparsely hairy or with hairs along the margins. Flowerheads are large open panicles. Spikelets are 18-30 mm long, with 2 glumes as long as the spikelet and 2-3 fertile florets. Lemmas are hairy in the lower half, terminate in 2 fine bristles 3-12 mm long and have a bent and twisted awn arising halfway along their back. Germinates from autumn to spring and flowers in late winter and spring. A native of the Mediterranean, it is a common weed of disturbed land such as roadsides and non-agricultural areas. An indicator of disturbance. Not a major weed of winter crops, unlike wild oats. Because of its distribution it rarely needs control, but the seed has a short viability and preventing seed set for 3-5 years will virtually eliminate it from the seedbank.
...or "prostrate in front of the capitalist gods": an appropriate frontispiece for The One Woman by Thomas Dixon (1903)
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.
Six pilgrims from Baima making their way towards Lhasa. 4 months and 400 km of mountain paths behind them, now about 12 months and 1700 km to go to their goal, Jokhang temple in Lhasa. 6 kilometers and 3000 prostrations per day.
Pilgrims who repeatedly prostrate themselves make a Tibetan prayer gesture, raise their hands in prayer, and lay down on the ground, their arms extended in front of them. Then they stand up and place their feet where their fingertips had just touched and repeat the process again. Those that do this often wear knee pads, aprons and canvas shoes on their hands.
This annual bunchgrass lies mostly prostrate on the sandy and gravelly shores of the Jefferson River in this area. The short cylindrical spikes are much like those of Timothy except for being much shorter (mostly abrout 2-3 cm long) and borne at the ends of prostrate to ascending stems. The combination of this spicate inflorescence, annual rosette growth form, and a hairy ligule is very distinctive.
'ohai.
Beautiful federally-listed endangered endemic Hawaiian species. This is the prostrate form from Molokini island. I love the silver sheen on this plant.
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.
Prostrate to sprawling shrub with a variable flowering time of May, July, September, October or November.
Photos Jean 2004
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 tufted grass to 100 cm tall. Juvenile growth is prostrate, but stems are mostly erect or with a bend near the base. Leaves are 3-8 mm wide and sparsely hairy or with hairs along the margins. Flowerheads are large open panicles. Spikelets are 18-30 mm long, with 2 glumes as long as the spikelet and 2-3 fertile florets. Lemmas are hairy in the lower half, terminate in 2 fine bristles 3-12 mm long and have a bent and twisted awn arising halfway along their back. Germinates from autumn to spring and flowers in late winter and spring. A native of the Mediterranean, it is a common weed of disturbed land such as roadsides and non-agricultural areas. An indicator of disturbance. Not a major weed of winter crops, unlike wild oats. Because of its distribution it rarely needs control, but the seed has a short viability and preventing seed set for 3-5 years will virtually eliminate it from the seedbank.
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
The penitents prostrate themselves on the hot ground, all the while being whipped before going into the church to pray.
A native coprosma clings flat to the craggy verticle face of a seashore rock on Wellington's coastline just north of Plimmerton.
Coprosma repens
Family: Rubiaceae
The habit of this species varies markedly with its situation. In exposed situations, such as cliffs, it assumes a prostrate habit, while in more sheltered areas it can grow as a small tree up to 8 metres in height. It has thick and very glossy leaves which vary considerably in size, depending on exposure to the elements. The leaf margins are recurved, occasionally to the extent that the leaf may be cylindrical in cross-section.
Flowers are produced in spring and summer, the male flowers appearing in dense, compound clusters, the female flowers in smaller clusters. Female plants produce orange-red ovoid drupes which are around 8 mm in diameter and 10 mm in length.
The species is native to the North Island, South Island, Kermadec Islands and Three Kings Islands in New Zealand. In Australia it has become naturalised in coastal areas of Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania.
The species has been popular in coastal gardens due to its resistance to salt spray. There are a large number of cultivars.
Introduced cool-season annual tufted grass to 100 cm tall. Juvenile growth is prostrate, but stems are mostly erect or with a bend near the base. Leaves are 3-8 mm wide and sparsely hairy or with hairs along the margins. Flowerheads are large open panicles. Spikelets are 18-30 mm long, with 2 glumes as long as the spikelet and 2-3 fertile florets. Lemmas are hairy in the lower half, terminate in 2 fine bristles 3-12 mm long and have a bent and twisted awn arising halfway along their back. Germinates from autumn to spring and flowers in late winter and spring. A native of the Mediterranean, it is a common weed of disturbed land such as roadsides and non-agricultural areas. An indicator of disturbance. Not a major weed of winter crops, unlike wild oats. Because of its distribution it rarely needs control, but the seed has a short viability and preventing seed set for 3-5 years will virtually eliminate it from the seedbank.