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Felted Anthotroche
Erect or sprawling to prostrate shrub, 0.1-2.5 m high. with green-yellow-purple/black or violet flowers in Aug to Dec or Jan to Feb.
It is such an striking plant with its felted leaves and flowers.
Tidal pool prostrate speedwell ground cover. These blue flowers are smaller than your little fingernail.
Introduced, warm-season, ephemeral or perennial, prostrate herb. Stems are softly hairy, to 60 cm long and root at the nodes. Leaves are opposite, obovate to circular, 0.5–5 cm long, hairless except for scattered hairs on lower midrib and base of lamina, mucronate and petiolate. Flowerheads are ellipsoid, to 15 mm long and 10 mm wide. Bracts are yellowish, lanceolate and pungent. Flowering from spring to autumn. A native of South America, it is widespread in wasteland, caravan parks, orchards and recreation areas. Spines are a problem with dogs and stock but are particularly troublesome to humans and readily penetrate skin.
Examining prostrate forms of Leptospermum rupestre (mountain teatree) near the shores of Lake Augusta.
The RTBG Seedbank has been in the field on the Central Plateau hosting members of the British-Irish Botanical Expedition to Tasmania 2018. Members of the team include staff from National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, National Botanic Garden Wales and two National Trust gardens - Nymans & Mount Stewart). The group are following in the footsteps of Harold Comber who collected Tasmanian flora for introduction into European horticulture in the 1930s.
Introduced, cool season, annual, prostrate to more or less erect, more or less hairy herbaceous legume. Leaves are 3-foliolate and hairless on the upper surface, with terminal leaflets 10–25 mm long and 10–32 mm wide; leaflets are marked by an upper central blotch or a very wide shield occupying the basal two-thirds of the leaflet. Stipules are strongly toothed and hairy on the lower surface. Flowerheads are 2–5-flowered; the peduncle is shorter than subtending petiole. Calyx teeth are equal in length to the calyx tube and the corolla is yellow.
Introduced, warm-season, ephemeral or perennial, prostrate herb. Stems are softly hairy, to 60 cm long and root at the nodes. Leaves are opposite, obovate to circular, 0.5–5 cm long, hairless except for scattered hairs on lower midrib and base of lamina, mucronate and petiolate. Flowerheads are ellipsoid, to 15 mm long and 10 mm wide. Bracts are yellowish, lanceolate and pungent. Flowering from spring to autumn. A native of South America, it is widespread in wasteland, caravan parks, orchards and recreation areas. Spines are a problem with dogs and stock but are particularly troublesome to humans and readily penetrate skin.
"Semi-prostrate or erect, lignotuberous shrub, 0.2-1 m high. Fl. yellow, Jun to Sep. Mainly on lateritic gravelly soils, occasionally granitic soils."
I admired this flowering plant growing in the very exposed and harsh conditions on Lembert Dome. Tuolumne Meadows. It appears to be rooted in a small crack in the granite. I perused The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada and think it is "Prostrate or Lobb's Buckwheat" (eriogonum lobbii)
Online I found a USDA reference where the picture shows a much paler flower, however it appears to agree with the identification: plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ERLO2
www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=2... mentions that in the Sierra Nevadas it is usually found in "granitic" soil - this certainly qualifies as granitic!
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.
She was lurking in the cascading stems of prostrate rosemary. What else would she be named? At night she'd retreat into the safety of its labyrinth and as the sun warmed its blossoms and brought in moths, flies, wasps, european and blue banded bees she'd emerge and hunt as the ultimate ambush predator. There was something you couldn't miss about Rosemary: she was gravid! As much as I didn't want her to eat one of our precious bees there was still that thought of her babies and the next mantid generation to come.
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.
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
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)
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).
Digitaria ischaemum 7/2021 Smooth Crabgrass- (Weed) Smooth Crabgrass, Mature size: 1-3in., prostrate, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Michigan Bloom Month -, In Garden Bed W1 for 0 DAYS (Native). Planted in 2021.
Summer annual weed grass, having a prostrate or ascending growth habit, with leaves and sheaths that do not have hairs and stems that do not root at the nodes. Found throughout the United States.
Very aggressive weed in my SE Michigan garden. Also in the lawn.
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Additional photos of this plant from 2021:
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 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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Prostrate pigweed (Amaranthus albus), Amaranth family (Amaranthaceae).
Natural open space near Bywater Park, Cottonwood Heights, Utah.
"Erect or prostrate shrub, 0.15-0.4 m high. Fl. red-purple, Sep to Oct. Sand, rocky granitic soils."
florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/5431
Photo: Fred
Introduced, warm-season, annual, prostrate to ascending herb with several stems to 30 cm long, often forming dense mats. Leaves are oblong, elliptic or obovate-oblong, mostly 3–8 mm long and usually 1–4 mm wide; margins are finely toothed to nearly entire; lamina often with a reddish brown spot in the middle. Flowerheads consist of cyathia with narrow white to pink, lobed appendages to 0.5 mm wide. Capsules are 1.3 mm long, with appressed hairs scattered over the 3 faces. Flowering is in summer. A native of NorthAmerica, It is a garden weed; often grows in cracks and paths.
Buckthorn forms atypical, prostrate bushes on the limestone pavement.
Poll Salach,
The Burren,
County Clare,
Ireland
Native, warm season, perennial, dioecious herb; branches are prostrate or ascending, hairless and often zigzagging. Leaves are often distichous, oblong-oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 10–30 mm long and 3–15 mm wide; margins are ± toothed. Flowers are unisexual; peduncles 3–13 mm long, recurved in fruit. Corollas are 6–9 mm long, white or pink, tinged purple; lobes spreading to recurved and hairy inside. Male flowers have blue-black anthers. Female flowers have pale sterile anthers. Flowering is mainly from January to April. Usually grows on heavy soils in moist depressions; widespread.
'ohai.
Beautiful federally-listed endangered 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.
Lhasa Tibet
The Barkhor Plaza & Jokhang Temple
The Pilgrims walk clockwise around the Johkang temple. The pilgrimage circuit around sacred site is called Kora. Tibetans perform Kora while spinning prayer wheels, chanting mantra, counting prayer beads and prostrating.
Day 2 in Lhasa featured a tour of the Jokhang with views out over Barkhor Square and pilgrims on the kora, some free time to explore the Barkhor for ourselves, then after another typical Tibetan lunch at the aptly named "Jokhang Temple Square Tibetan Style Restaurant", it was off to Canggu Nunnery before rendezvousing with our minibus and driving to spend an hour or so exploring Sera Monastery and watching the monks debate - I could easily have spent longer there.
Deposited back at the Kyichu Hotel we had a couple of hours free time, which I spent blending two of the Lonely Planet's walking tours to capture some more highlights: back to the Barkhor and the muslim quarter, hot footing it along Jiangsu Donglu to get back to the park opposite the Potala, and climbing to the white chorten to the south west of the palace, for more marvellous views of the Potala and the chorten that now acts as a traffic island on Beijing Donglu... Then back to the hotel for dinner, then packing/preparing for the start of our jeep expedition - destination, all points West!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokhang_Temple
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Like all dayflowers, Kanpet is a prostrate herb, 20-30 cm high, occasionally found in the grasslands. Long slender stems are branched and rooted at nodes, which make the plant prostrate. Narrowly oblong leaves are 3-5 cm in length, and have a wavy margin. Tiny butterfly like blue flowers are 1 cm across, and occur in cymes of 1-3 at the end of branches. Flowers are enclosed in ovate, hairy, hooded spathes 1-1.5 cm long. The flowers have 3 petals - the larger two are like butterfly wings.
Introduced, warm-season, annual, prostrate to ascending herb with several stems to 30 cm long, often forming dense mats. Leaves are oblong, elliptic or obovate-oblong, mostly 3–8 mm long and usually 1–4 mm wide; margins are finely toothed to nearly entire; lamina often with a reddish brown spot in the middle. Flowerheads consist of cyathia with narrow white to pink, lobed appendages to 0.5 mm wide. Capsules are 1.3 mm long, with appressed hairs scattered over the 3 faces. Flowering is in summer. A native of NorthAmerica, It is a garden weed; often grows in cracks and paths.
Native, cool-season to yearlong green, perennial, erect or prostrate, hairy herb to 60 cm tall; more or less woody at the base. Basal leaves are petiolate, soon withering; cauline leaves are wedge-shaped to spathulate, 8–40 mm long, sparsely hairy and sessile; margins toothed towards apex. Heads 6–20 mm diam., solitary or in loose leafy cymes of 2 or 3; involucral bracts scabrous-hairy and with scattered glandular hairs; receptacle conical, without scales. Disc florets are tubular and yellow; ray florets are white, blue or purple and 3–9 mm long. Achenes have a pappus of 2–4 rigid barbed awns, with 2–4 basal scales. Widespread on a wide variety of soil types and situations.
interesting prostrate forbs - Sclerolaena? All suggestions appreciated
caroona creek conservation park, northern mount lofty ranges, south australia
Introduced, cool season, annual, prostrate to more or less erect, more or less hairy herbaceous legume. Leaves are 3-foliolate and hairless on the upper surface, with terminal leaflets 10–25 mm long and 10–32 mm wide; leaflets are marked by an upper central blotch or a very wide shield occupying the basal two-thirds of the leaflet. Stipules are strongly toothed and hairy on the lower surface. Flowerheads are 2–5-flowered; the peduncle is shorter than subtending petiole. Calyx teeth are equal in length to the calyx tube and the corolla is yellow. Flowers in spring.
Mahonia repens commonly known as creeping mahonia, creeping Oregon grape, creeping barberry, or prostrate barberry, is a species of Mahonia native to the Rocky Mountains and westward areas of North America, from British Columbia and Alberta in the north through Arizona and New Mexico, then into northwest Mexico by some reports. It is also found in many areas of California and the Great Basin region in Nevada.
Mahonia repens is a typical mahonia with conspicuous matte blue berries. It grows as a subshrub. The yellow flowers appear in the middle of spring, and the blue berries in early summer. Although it is evergreen, in fall the leaves turn bronze.
The berries are edible but are considered bitter, and used to make jellies.
The Tolowa and Karok Indians of Northwest California used the roots for a blood and cough tonic. The Hopi, Paiute, Navajo, Shoshoni, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Mendocino, and other tribes also used the plant for medicinal, food, and ceremonial needs. Native Americans also used the wood of the stem to produce yellow dyes to stain woven baskets.
Creeping mahonia is cultivated as an ornamental plant for use in natural landscaping, and in water conserving, drought tolerant, traditional residential, native plant habitat, and wildlife gardens. It is a low water-needing ground cover for shade and brighter habitats, and in gardens under oaks to reduce or eliminate irrigation that can threaten mature Quercus trees. Berries and foliage are resistant to browsing by deer.
Native, warm season, annual or sometimes perennial, prostrate to decumbent herb with stems to 25 cm long. Leaves are obovate to oblanceolate and to 25 mm long. Flowers are in 2–30-flowered heads. Petals are yellow and 4–7 mm long; scarcely exceeding the sepals. Stamens number < 20. Capsules (without calyx and corolla) are 3–6 mm long and contain black seeds. Flowering is from August to March. Grows as a weed in disturbed areas and is common on cultivated land.
Introduced, warm-season, annual, prostrate to ascending herb with several stems to 30 cm long, often forming dense mats. Leaves are oblong, elliptic or obovate-oblong, mostly 3–8 mm long and usually 1–4 mm wide; margins are finely toothed to nearly entire; lamina often with a reddish brown spot in the middle. Flowerheads consist of cyathia with narrow white to pink, lobed appendages to 0.5 mm wide. Capsules are 1.3 mm long, with appressed hairs scattered over the 3 faces. Flowering is in summer. A native of NorthAmerica, It is a garden weed; often grows in cracks and paths.
Prostrate Rulingia (Rulingia procumbens) in Goonoo State Forest near Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia. Photographed on 6 October 1974.
Digitised from a slide. The original slide, which is of higher quality, is held.
Prostrate shrub, 0.02-0.05 m high, to 0.15 m wide. Fl. cream-white, Jun or Nov. Gravelly clay loam or lateritic ridges.
It is interesting to see the petals (creamy yellow cups covering the stamen) open and fit behind the Calyx.
Jeniang, Kedah, Malaysia.
Elettariopsis curtisii Baker. Zingiberaceae. CN: NA. Herb with widely creeping, slender rhizomes. Inflorescence axis is prostrate just below soil surface; flowers well spaced and appear solitary, not in clusters above ground.
Synonym(s):
Cyphostigma curtisii (Baker) K.Schum.
Cyphostigma diphyllum K.Schum.
Cyphostigma latiflorum (Ridl.) K.Schum.
Cyphostigma serpentinum (Baker) K.Schum.
Elettariopsis diphylla (K.Schum.) Loes.
Elettariopsis serpentina Baker
Ref. and suggested reading:
FRIM Flora Database
Kamus Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia
Gingers of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, K. Larsen, et. al.
Digitaria ischaemum 7/2021 Smooth Crabgrass- (Weed) Smooth Crabgrass, Mature size: 1-3in., prostrate, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Michigan Bloom Month -, In Garden Bed W1 for 0 DAYS (Native). Planted in 2021.
Summer annual weed grass, having a prostrate or ascending growth habit, with leaves and sheaths that do not have hairs and stems that do not root at the nodes. Found throughout the United States.
Very aggressive weed in my SE Michigan garden. Also in the lawn.
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Additional photos of this plant from 2021: