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Native, terrestrial or occasionally aquatic, hairless, usually prostrate annual or perennial herb. Leaves ovate, usually broadly so, mostly 0.1–0.5 cm long and shortly petiolate. Flowers solitary in axils. Corolla 2-lipped, with the limb blue, purple or pink; tube 5–10 mm long, white or yellow sometimes with red spots; lower lip c. 4 mm long with a prominent yellow raised palate at the base closing mouth. Flowers from spring to autumn. Grows in swampy sites, open margins of lakes, watercourses, or in temporarily wet areas, sometimes in saline sites.
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, 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
hairy herbaceous C3 legume, with short taproots and prostrate to sprawling stems. Leaves have 3 heart-shaped leaflets on stalks of equal length; they also have variable white and brown markings which depend on plant variety and time of year. Flowerheads consist of clusters of 3-6 white (rarely pinkish), pea-like flowers. Depending on variety, seedheads are either pushed into cracks or buried in the ground. Flowers from late winter to early summer. A native of Europe and the Mediterranean region, it is widely sown in pastures and naturally occurs in disturbed areas of lawns, roadsides and grasslands. Best suited legume for large areas of southern Australia and sown over millions of hectares. Suited to permanent and semi-permanent pastures and cropping rotations. There are 3 distinct subspecies: 1) subterranean – suited to well-drained, slightly acid soils; 2) yanninicum - tolerates intermittent waterlogging and poorly drained conditions and; 3) brachycalycinum - suited to neutral to alkaline soils. Fixes nitrogen and produces high quality feed from autumn to spring but can cause bloat. Requires medium to high soil fertility, particularly phosphorus, sulfur and molybdenum. Tolerant of heavy grazing. Grasses needs to be well grazed in late summer and early autumn to remove residues and aid the germination and growth of clover seedlings.
Species from eastern North America
Common name: dollar-leaf, prostrate ticktrefoil
Photographed in Big Creek Natural Area, Cleburne County, Arkansas
I don't remember ever seeing this wildflower before - anyway, it's the first photo of it on my photostream. The tiny flowers were such a pretty colour. This was found on a hike on the Small Whaleback, an area of wonderful, rolling hills way south of the city, on July 10th. The Small Whaleback (and yes, there is a larger Whaleback nearby, lol) is just off Highway 22, immediately north of the Oldman River.
"Verbena bracteata is a species of verbena known by the common names bigbract verbena, prostrate vervain, and carpet vervain. It is native to North America where it is widespread, occurring throughout the continent except for northern Canada and southern Mexico. It occurs in many types of habitat, especially disturbed areas, where it grows as a common weed. This annual or biennial herb produces several hairy, spreading stems up to 30 centimeters long forming a low mat on the ground. The hairy leaves are toothed or lobed. The inflorescence is a spike of flowers which is dense with long, pointed, leaflike bracts each up to 8 millimeters long. Each small tubular flower is about half a centimeter wide and white to pale purple in color." From Wikipedia.
This delightful prostrate herb has the most beautiful yellow flowers, which look wonderful against the dark green leaves. There are so many different yellow flowers out in the grassy woodland at the moment but they all have subtle differences. Commonly known as Ivy Goodenia.
Family: Goodeniaceae
More information at: plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&am...
The Jokhang has a statue of Jowo Shakyamuni, the most sacred statue in Tibetan Buddhism. The statue is 1.5 meters tall, cast from precious metals, and decorated with glittering jewels.
No picture taking is allowed inside the temple.
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.
"Erect, spreading or prostrate herb, to 0.3 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. Red sand, clay. Saline flats & depressions."
Prostrate broom near open pits
Dungeness Site of Special Scientific Interest
Dungeness National Nature Reserve
Kent
Copyright Natural England/Peter Wakely
1996
Introduced, warm season, annual, prostrate herb with stems to 25 cm long. Leaves are linear, lanceolate or rarely oblanceolate and 15–25 mm long. Flowers are in 1–6-flowered heads. Petals are 3–8 mm long and pink. Stamens number 15–25. Capsules are to 7 mm long and contain black seeds. Flowering is in summer. A native of the Americas, it occurs on coastal sandy soils.
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.
Devon hanging around at the entrance to the Jokhang Monastery/Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. The blurred figures in the background are walking or prostrating themselves in a clockwise fashion around the perimeter of this holy place.
Native, terrestrial or occasionally aquatic, hairless, usually prostrate annual or perennial herb. Leaves ovate, usually broadly so, mostly 0.1–0.5 cm long and shortly petiolate. Flowers solitary in axils. Corolla 2-lipped, with the limb blue, purple or pink; tube 5–10 mm long, white or yellow sometimes with red spots; lower lip c. 4 mm long with a prominent yellow raised palate at the base closing mouth. Flowers from spring to autumn. Grows in swampy sites, open margins of lakes, watercourses, or in temporarily wet areas, sometimes in saline sites.
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.
This annual amaranth is often reported as forming a tumbleweed by late fall. Locally abundant in the Table Rock area, prostrate pigweed like other species in the genus requires sites with high levels of disturbance, such as alongside heavily used trails. 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 the trail that leaves the neighborhood west of Table Rock, Boise, Idaho.
gom-FREE-nuh -- from the Latin gomphaena, ancient classical name for an amaranth ... Dave's Botanary
sair-AY-tuh or ser-RAT-uh -- toothed like a saw ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: coastal globe amaranth, prostrate globe amaranth, prostrate gomphrena • Kannada: ಅಡಿಕೆ ಹೂವು adike hoovu, ನೆಲರುದ್ರಾಕ್ಷಿ nelarudrakshi • Telugu: గడ్డి పూలు gaddi poolu
botanical names: Gomphrena serrata L. ... heterotypic synonyms: Gomphrena bicolor Moq. • Gomphrena decumbens Jacq. ... homotypic synonyms and more at POWO, retrieved 10 December 2025
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Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu; native of tropical America, introduced, naturalized
Names compiled / updated at Names of Plants in India.
Location: Europe > Portugal > Algarve
Date Photo Taken: May 6, 2009
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Prostrate broom
Dungeness Site of Special Scientific Interest
Dungeness National Nature Reserve
Kent
Copyright Natural England/Peter Wakely
1996
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.
Colubrina asiatica (Anapanapa)
Thick trunk prostrate habit with ohai and Achyranthes canoes paddlers in ocean Molokini Kahoolawe in view at Wailea Coastal Walk, Maui, Hawaii.
February 22, 2017