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Introduced, warm-season, perennial, prostrate to erect, woody herb or shrub to 1 m tall. Stems are reddish, hairless, with weak opposite longitudinal ridges; they arise from rhizomes or woody crowns. Leaves are opposite, sessile, hairless, to 3 cm long and have many translucent dots (oil glands) that are easily seen when held to the light. Flowerheads are panicles or corymbose cymes. Flowers are numerous and 15-20 mm wide. Petals are yellow and have black glands on their edges. Styles are 3-branched. Fruit are sticky 3-valved capsules, 5 to 10 mm long. Flowers in late spring and summer. Found in neglected pastures, sparse bushland and disturbed areas. Tiny seeds spread by water and in soil, hay and livestock. Sticky fruits adhere to animals; long runners spread from crowns. Causes photosensitisation and numerous other disorders in livestock; animals tend to recover once removed. Established plants are very competitive and are best controlled by herbicides or, if suitable, by cultivation. Introduced insect (Chrysolina beetles) and mite (St John’s wort mite ) predators provide good levels of control in many areas. Promote dense, healthy pastures to compete with seedlings, which are not robust.
Introduced, warm season, perennial, prostrate herb to 60 cm tall. Leaves and stems are hairy with glandular and non-glandular hairs. Leaves are alternate, lanceolate, deeply veined and stem clasping. Blue to mauve tubular flowers (with yellow stamens and throat) arranged caterpillar-like in 2 rows on one side of the flowering stem (scirpoid cyme). Flowers most of the year, but not in winter in southern areas. Grows on a wide range of soil types. Predominantly in areas that receive at least 50% of average annual rainfall in summer. It is mostly a problem of run down pasture and disturbed areas such as cropping paddocks, roadsides and waste land. Regenerates from seed and vegetatively from pieces of plant and roots. It is spread by water, fur of animals and in the gut of animals. A weed which is toxic to animals, quite invasive and difficult to control. Causes chronic liver damage in cattle, sheep and horses; can be fatal. Cultivation encourages its spread by stimulating germination and regrowth of plant parts. Management requires an integrated approach including herbicides, productive pasture, grazing management and biological control. There has only been one biological control agent released in Australia, the blue heliotrope leaf-beetle. At high densities, leaf-beetles can completely defoliate blue heliotrope, with both the larvae and adults feeding on the leaves.
Introduced, cool-season, annual, erect or ± prostrate herb, 10-20 cm tall. Leaves are narrow-lanceolate to narrow-obovate to spathulate, 1.5–3 cm long, 2–8 mm wide, apex obtuse to acute and mucronate, base slightly stem-clasping, both surfaces white-tomentose. Heads woolly at the base, 1.5–3 mm diam., in axillary clusters forming a leafy panicle, subtended by several ovate to obovate hyaline bracts. Flowers in spring and early summer. Grows in disturbed areas.
Sir Winston Churchill:
"The failure to strangle Bolshevism at its birth and to bring Russia, then prostrate, by one means or another, into the general democratic system lies heavy upon us today."
Source: Sir Winston Churchill's Address at the MIT Mid-Century Convocation, March 31, 1949
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Family : Theaceae
This is an excellent prostrate Camelia growing to about 60cm.
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.
They made me think you were a prostrate living in New York. Can you see how much i love you, it's never been about what you look like or what you have done but yes i was scared for your everyday thinking you were being raped and abused, I was hurting with extreme emotional pain every day. I love you forever Gabby.
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, 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.
Prostrate knotweed (Polygonum aviculare), Buckwheat family (Polygonaceae).
Elbow Fork Trail, Millcreek Canyon, Utah; elevation 2056 m.
I think!
The Largeleaf Pennywort is a perennial herbaceous plant, prostrate with creeping lateral stems.
This plant has basal leaves only. Leaves can be as wide as 10 cm (4inches). Each leaf is peltate, more or less circular and has irregular shallow lobes.
The flowers have 5 Regular Parts. They are white. Blooms first appear in early spring and continue into early fall. The flowers are small and in branching clusters with the peduncle usually much longer than the pedicel.
Found along beaches and other moist, sandy areas from Texas to Florida and as far north as Virginia, mostly along the coast. Also widespread in South America.
Family: Convolvulaceae. A native NZ convolvulus. Indigenous. Kermadec, Three Kings, North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. Habitat: Coastal or inland along lake shorelines. Usually in sand or shell banks but also grows in fine gravel or pumice, talus slopes and on occasion in coastal turf or on cliff faces. Perennial herb with stout, white, deeply descending, fleshy roots and numerous prostrate branching stems forming dense patches. Stems glabrous. Petioles 80 mm or less, slender. Leaves (10-)50(-80) x (10-)50(-75) mm, reniform, fleshy, glossy, entire; sinus shallow and rounded; apex emarginate, obtuse or acute. Flowers solitary; peduncles ribbed, 100 mm long. Bracts ovate. cordate, obtuse 12-18 mm long. Sepals nearly = bracts, obtuse. Corolla 20-40 x 25-50 mm, campanulate, pink with white mid-petaline bands. Capsule 15-20 mm long, broad-ovoid, apiculate. Seeds dark brown, smooth.A nationally important wetland and one of the finest in the Wellington region, these beautiful little coastal lakes are a stones throw from the borders of our capital city.
Cradled within the steep rolling hills of Pencarrow Head, the area abounds in natural and human history. Early Maori hunted and food gathered here and some of the ancient karaka trees, not natural in the Wellington region, were almost certainly planted by them as their fruit were an important food source. The lakes would have abounded in birdlife in pre-European times and eel, which are still there. Birdlife is still abundant here and with local volunteers now maintaining a network of traps for possum, stoat and rat (all introduced aniumals to New Zealand) the wildlife and plantlife is recovering. Black swan and mallard (introduced) and native little grebe and paradise duck can be found here and the raised lake banks that separate the lakes from the sea are important breeding grounds for banded dotteral and several rare species of cusion plants and native moths that breed and feed on them.
The hills above the lake were the sight of early New Zealand lighthosues, the two Pencarroew lights a popular destination for the many trampers and mountain bikers that visit here. Life was tough and the grave of a lighthouse keeper’s child sits below the upper lighthouse.
Today the hills are denuded from burning and pasturalisation but the small pockets of native forest in the valleys are recovering and spreading with protection. The introduced gorse, although a weed, helps with this. It provides shelter for the natives to grow through and is a nitrogen fixer so fertilised the soil.
Ancient karaka, tree fern and nikau palm, along with mahoe and manuka form the dominant trees in the recovering forest.
Wind is a constant here. Wellington is one of the world’s windiest cities and the Pencarrow Heads are infamous for sudden and violent windstorms. Yet the valleys can be tranquil even when gales are roaring over the tops. The photos in this series were all taken on a day when it was hard to stand upright and achieve pin-sharp photos, such was the force of the wind.
A nationally important wetland and one of the finest in the Wellington region, these beautiful little coastal lakes are a stones throw from the borders of our capital city.
Cradled within the steep rolling hills of Pencarrow Head, the area abounds in natural and human history. Early Maori hunted and food gathered here and some of the ancient karaka trees, not natural in the Wellington region, were almost certainly planted by them as their fruit were an important food source. The lakes would have abounded in birdlife in pre-European times and eel, which are still there. Birdlife is still abundant here and with local volunteers now maintaining a network of traps for possum, stoat and rat (all introduced aniumals to New Zealand) the wildlife and plantlife is recovering. Black swan and mallard (introduced) and native little grebe and paradise duck can be found here and the raised lake banks that separate the lakes from the sea are important breeding grounds for banded dotteral and several rare species of cusion plants and native moths that breed and feed on them.
The hills above the lake were the sight of early New Zealand lighthosues, the two Pencarroew lights a popular destination for the many trampers and mountain bikers that visit here. Life was tough and the grave of a lighthouse keeper’s child sits below the upper lighthouse.
Today the hills are denuded from burning and pasturalisation but the small pockets of native forest in the valleys are recovering and spreading with protection. The introduced gorse, although a weed, helps with this. It provides shelter for the natives to grow through and is a nitrogen fixer so fertilised the soil.
Ancient karaka, tree fern and nikau palm, along with mahoe and manuka form the dominant trees in the recovering forest.
Wind is a constant here. Wellington is one of the world’s windiest cities and the Pencarrow Heads are infamous for sudden and violent windstorms. Yet the valleys can be tranquil even when gales are roaring over the tops. The photos in this series were all taken on a day when it was hard to stand upright and achieve pin-sharp photos, such was the force of the wind.
Good Friday
The Priest prostrates in the Presence of God.
Mass 5:oopm celebrated by Father Martin Then
Prostrate spreading villous perennial herb with long non-glandular and shorter glandular hairs. Basal leaves usually broad-elliptic to broad-ovate, hastate or sagittate and margins toothed; upper leaves are smaller. Flowers on pedicels 5–20 mm long. Corolla 2.5–7.5 mm long; tube white; spur white, curved and 5–7 mm long; upper lip purple to brown-purple-fronted, and lower lip pale yellow. Flowers from November to May. A native of Europe, North Africa and south western Asia, it is found in disturbed areas. In this case following severe drought in Dungog Common.
Prostrate spreading plant to 6 cm high x to 15 cm wide. Purple flowers.
They grow in seasonal wet areas flowering into summer.
Photo: Fred
15 Dec 2017
Native, warm season, perennial herb. Stems are creeping, prostrate to decumbent and slender, with strongly retrorse-strigose hairs. Leaves are hastate or sagittate, 4–6.5 cm long, 15–32 mm wide, with sparse antrorse to occasionally retrorse hairs mostly restricted to veins and margins. Flowerheads have 2–4 branches with small terminal subglobose flower clusters 5–10 mm long with bracts crowded at end of branches. Perianth segments 3.0–3.7 mm long, pink or white. Common in coastal regions (less so on the South Coast). In open swamps. Not eaten by livestock.
Prostrate spreading villous perennial herb with long non-glandular and shorter glandular hairs. Basal leaves usually broad-elliptic to broad-ovate, hastate or sagittate and margins toothed; upper leaves are smaller. Flowers on pedicels 5–20 mm long. Corolla 2.5–7.5 mm long; tube white; spur white, curved and 5–7 mm long; upper lip purple to brown-purple-fronted, and lower lip pale yellow. Flowers from November to May. A native of Europe, North Africa and south western Asia, it is found in disturbed areas. In this case following severe drought in Dungog Common.
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.
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Family : Violaceae
Viola banksii is a herbaceous plant of prostrate habit found in coastal areas of New South Wales and south-east Queensland.
The species spreads by layering stems while the bright green leaves are kidney-shaped and about 15 - 25 mm in diameter. Purple and white flowers appear individually on stems about 150 mm high and occur throughout the warmer parts of the year. Single plants can spread to cover very large areas, particularly in moist positions.
Viola banksii is a very hardy plant in a range of climates. It prefers, moist locations in a sunny or semi-shaded location however in full sun the leaves do lose some of their lush appearance. Reference
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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.
Prostrate spreading villous perennial herb with long non-glandular and shorter glandular hairs. Basal leaves usually broad-elliptic to broad-ovate, hastate or sagittate and margins toothed; upper leaves are smaller. Flowers on pedicels 5–20 mm long. Corolla 2.5–7.5 mm long; tube white; spur white, curved and 5–7 mm long; upper lip purple to brown-purple-fronted, and lower lip pale yellow. Flowers from November to May. A native of Europe, North Africa and south western Asia, it is found in disturbed areas. In this case following severe drought in Dungog Common.
Prostrate spreading villous perennial herb with long non-glandular and shorter glandular hairs. Basal leaves usually broad-elliptic to broad-ovate, hastate or sagittate and margins toothed; upper leaves are smaller. Flowers on pedicels 5–20 mm long. Corolla 2.5–7.5 mm long; tube white; spur white, curved and 5–7 mm long; upper lip purple to brown-purple-fronted, and lower lip pale yellow. Flowers from November to May. A native of Europe, North Africa and south western Asia, it is found in disturbed areas. In this case following severe drought in Dungog Common.
"Erect, spreading or prostrate herb, to 0.3 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. Red sand, clay. Saline flats & depressions."
These prostrate logs are known as the ‘twin sisters' due to their similarity in size and coloring. The second forest is noted for the minute detail and grain of the wood, readily seen under the microscope, and in many cases with the naked eye.
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, 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.
Introduced, warm-season, annual or biennial, mat-forming herb, with a deep taproot. Stems are prostrate, to 1 m long and arise from the one point. Branch leaves are about half the size of stem leaves; leaves are narrow-elliptic to narrow-ovate, 15–50 mm long, 3–15 mm wide and 4–5 times as long as wide.. Flowers are small (2.6-4 mm long), pink or white and solitary or in small clusters in the leaf axils. Flowering is from spring to autumn. A native of Europe, it is a weed of disturbed areas, particularly roadsides, wasteland, cropping paddocks, gateways and degraded pastures. An indicator of poor ground cover. Can form dense mats in newly sown pastures and is a weed of summer fallows or summer crops such as lucerne. Strongly competitive, it has vigorous seedlings with a strong tap root; mature plants inhibit the germination of many seedlings (allelopathic effect) particularly medic species. May be grazed by cattle and sheep, usually without a problem, but seeds can cause enteritis in all types of livestock; leaves occasionally cause dermatitis. Controlled with healthy vigorous pastures. Registered herbicides are available for control.
Introduced, warm-season, perennial, prostrate to erect, woody herb or shrub to 1 m tall. Stems are reddish, hairless, with weak opposite longitudinal ridges; they arise from rhizomes or woody crowns. Leaves are opposite, sessile, hairless, to 3 cm long and have many translucent dots (oil glands) that are easily seen when held to the light. Flowerheads are panicles or corymbose cymes. Flowers are numerous and 15-20 mm wide. Petals are yellow and have black glands on their edges. Styles are 3-branched. Fruit are sticky 3-valved capsules, 5 to 10 mm long. Flowers in late spring and summer. Found in neglected pastures, sparse bushland and disturbed areas. Tiny seeds spread by water and in soil, hay and livestock. Sticky fruits adhere to animals; long runners spread from crowns. Causes photosensitisation and numerous other disorders in livestock; animals tend to recover once removed. Established plants are very competitive and are best controlled by herbicides or, if suitable, by cultivation. Introduced insect (Chrysolina beetles) and mite (St John’s wort mite ) predators provide good levels of control in many areas. Promote dense, healthy pastures to compete with seedlings, which are not robust.
Family: Convolvulaceae. A native NZ convolvulus. Indigenous. Kermadec, Three Kings, North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. Habitat: Coastal or inland along lake shorelines. Usually in sand or shell banks but also grows in fine gravel or pumice, talus slopes and on occasion in coastal turf or on cliff faces. Perennial herb with stout, white, deeply descending, fleshy roots and numerous prostrate branching stems forming dense patches. Stems glabrous. Petioles 80 mm or less, slender. Leaves (10-)50(-80) x (10-)50(-75) mm, reniform, fleshy, glossy, entire; sinus shallow and rounded; apex emarginate, obtuse or acute. Flowers solitary; peduncles ribbed, 100 mm long. Bracts ovate. cordate, obtuse 12-18 mm long. Sepals nearly = bracts, obtuse. Corolla 20-40 x 25-50 mm, campanulate, pink with white mid-petaline bands. Capsule 15-20 mm long, broad-ovoid, apiculate. Seeds dark brown, smooth.A nationally important wetland and one of the finest in the Wellington region, these beautiful little coastal lakes are a stones throw from the borders of our capital city.
Cradled within the steep rolling hills of Pencarrow Head, the area abounds in natural and human history. Early Maori hunted and food gathered here and some of the ancient karaka trees, not natural in the Wellington region, were almost certainly planted by them as their fruit were an important food source. The lakes would have abounded in birdlife in pre-European times and eel, which are still there. Birdlife is still abundant here and with local volunteers now maintaining a network of traps for possum, stoat and rat (all introduced aniumals to New Zealand) the wildlife and plantlife is recovering. Black swan and mallard (introduced) and native little grebe and paradise duck can be found here and the raised lake banks that separate the lakes from the sea are important breeding grounds for banded dotteral and several rare species of cusion plants and native moths that breed and feed on them.
The hills above the lake were the sight of early New Zealand lighthosues, the two Pencarroew lights a popular destination for the many trampers and mountain bikers that visit here. Life was tough and the grave of a lighthouse keeper’s child sits below the upper lighthouse.
Today the hills are denuded from burning and pasturalisation but the small pockets of native forest in the valleys are recovering and spreading with protection. The introduced gorse, although a weed, helps with this. It provides shelter for the natives to grow through and is a nitrogen fixer so fertilised the soil.
Ancient karaka, tree fern and nikau palm, along with mahoe and manuka form the dominant trees in the recovering forest.
Wind is a constant here. Wellington is one of the world’s windiest cities and the Pencarrow Heads are infamous for sudden and violent windstorms. Yet the valleys can be tranquil even when gales are roaring over the tops. The photos in this series were all taken on a day when it was hard to stand upright and achieve pin-sharp photos, such was the force of the wind.
A nationally important wetland and one of the finest in the Wellington region, these beautiful little coastal lakes are a stones throw from the borders of our capital city.
Cradled within the steep rolling hills of Pencarrow Head, the area abounds in natural and human history. Early Maori hunted and food gathered here and some of the ancient karaka trees, not natural in the Wellington region, were almost certainly planted by them as their fruit were an important food source. The lakes would have abounded in birdlife in pre-European times and eel, which are still there. Birdlife is still abundant here and with local volunteers now maintaining a network of traps for possum, stoat and rat (all introduced aniumals to New Zealand) the wildlife and plantlife is recovering. Black swan and mallard (introduced) and native little grebe and paradise duck can be found here and the raised lake banks that separate the lakes from the sea are important breeding grounds for banded dotteral and several rare species of cusion plants and native moths that breed and feed on them.
The hills above the lake were the sight of early New Zealand lighthosues, the two Pencarroew lights a popular destination for the many trampers and mountain bikers that visit here. Life was tough and the grave of a lighthouse keeper’s child sits below the upper lighthouse.
Today the hills are denuded from burning and pasturalisation but the small pockets of native forest in the valleys are recovering and spreading with protection. The introduced gorse, although a weed, helps with this. It provides shelter for the natives to grow through and is a nitrogen fixer so fertilised the soil.
Ancient karaka, tree fern and nikau palm, along with mahoe and manuka form the dominant trees in the recovering forest.
Wind is a constant here. Wellington is one of the world’s windiest cities and the Pencarrow Heads are infamous for sudden and violent windstorms. Yet the valleys can be tranquil even when gales are roaring over the tops. The photos in this series were all taken on a day when it was hard to stand upright and achieve pin-sharp photos, such was the force of the wind.
Erect, ascending or prostrate shrub to 2 m high, viscid, often varnished. Leaves, cauline, mostly ovate to elliptic, 3–8 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, margins toothed.
Flowers in leafy stalks to 4 cm long. Flowering occurs mainly from October to March.
This morning, as I was discussing with Twoflower where he'd most like to be photographed, he mentioned that he rather enjoyed the outing to the back garden yesterday. So out we went again, this time to photograph the actual garden part of the back garden.
Here Twoflower poses in a pot of rosemary at the centre of the small winter veg patch. He is surrounded by four sorts of lettuces, an onion which spontaneously started to grow in my fridge, cilantro, flat-leaf parsley, spinach, oregano, and my son's strawberry.
Twoflower recommends we photograph in the front garden tomorrow.
This is a prostrate species that has become very popular in north Queensland. It has a long flowering season and the flowers are quite large, although not fragrant. Closely related to Gardenia psidioides. Popular groundcover in amenity landscaping in north-east Queensland.
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 diameter and many-flowered. Flowers occur on minute pedicels and are erect to deflexed after anthesis. Petals are 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.
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, warm season, perennial herb. Stems are creeping, prostrate to decumbent and slender, with strongly retrorse-strigose hairs. Leaves are hastate or sagittate, 4–6.5 cm long, 15–32 mm wide, with sparse antrorse to occasionally retrorse hairs mostly restricted to veins and margins. Flowerheads have 2–4 branches with small terminal subglobose flower clusters 5–10 mm long with bracts crowded at end of branches. Perianth segments 3.0–3.7 mm long, pink or white. Common in coastal regions (less so on the South Coast). In open swamps. Not eaten by livestock.
Introduced, warm season, perennial, prostrate herb to 60 cm tall. Leaves and stems are hairy with glandular and non-glandular hairs. Leaves are alternate, lanceolate, deeply veined and stem clasping. Blue to mauve tubular flowers (with yellow stamens and throat) arranged caterpillar-like in 2 rows on one side of the flowering stem (scirpoid cyme). Flowers most of the year, but not in winter in southern areas. Grows on a wide range of soil types. Predominantly in areas that receive at least 50% of average annual rainfall in summer. It is mostly a problem of run down pasture and disturbed areas such as cropping paddocks, roadsides and waste land. Regenerates from seed and vegetatively from pieces of plant and roots. It is spread by water, fur of animals and in the gut of animals. A weed which is toxic to animals, quite invasive and difficult to control. Causes chronic liver damage in cattle, sheep and horses; can be fatal. Cultivation encourages its spread by stimulating germination and regrowth of plant parts. Management requires an integrated approach including herbicides, productive pasture, grazing management and biological control. There has only been one biological control agent released in Australia, the blue heliotrope leaf-beetle. At high densities, leaf-beetles can completely defoliate blue heliotrope, with both the larvae and adults feeding on the leaves.
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.