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The prostrate Pedicularis gruina flowering at Lijiang Alpine Botanic Garden, Yunnan Provence, China.
Prostrate knotweed. For more information on identification and control, visit turfweeds.cals.cornell.edu/plant/identify/227.
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.
roo-EL-ee-uh -- named for Jean Ruel, French botanist ... Dave's Botanary
prost-RAY-tuh -- prostrate ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: bell weed, black weed, prostrate wild petunia • Bengali: ধমনী dhamani • Dogri: वन बसूटी van basuti • Gujarati: કાળી ધામણ ઢોકળી kali dhaman dhokali, કાલી ઘાવણી kali ghavani • Hindi: धामिन dhamin • Kannada: ಭೀಮನ ಸೊಪ್ಪು bheemana soppu • Malayalam: ഉപ്പുതാളി upputhaali • Marathi: भुई रुवेल bhui ruwel, काळी धावणी kali dhawani • Rajasthani: काली घावणी kali ghavani • Tamil: போட்டகாஞ்சி pottakanchi • Telugu: మాను పత్రి maanu pathri, నేల నీలాంబరము nela neelaambaramu
botanical names: Ruellia prostrata Poir. ... homotypic synonyms: Dipteracanthus prostratus (Poir.) Nees • Ruellia patula var. prostrata(Poir.) Chiov. ... accepted infraspecifics: Ruellia prostrata var. prostrata ... heterotypic synonyms: Ruellia deccanensis J.Graham • Ruellia pallida Willd. ex Nees • Ruellia prostrata var. dejecta (Nees) C.B.Clarke • Ruellia ringens Roxb. ... and more at POWO, retrieved 16 July 2025
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Andhra Pradesh, *Goa, *Haryana, *Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Maharashtra, *Odisha, *Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, *Uttarakhand, West Bengal
* no given name / no name found in the regional language(s) of the state
Names compiled / updated at Names of Plants in India.
What use is it bowing one’s head?
To what avail has prostrating led?
Reading Kalma you make them laugh
Absorbing not a word while the Quran you quaff
The truth must be here and there sustained
It’s all in One contained
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.
A dwarf, prostrate European Willow. The flowers are extremely tiny - compare to size of the ants. My yard, Willow Family, Salicaceae, 2008 18 May_0492acr
Prostrate form parking lot planting with Kim view boardwalk at Kealia Pond, Maui, Hawaii.
May 17, 2016
Dibatabata (Kikongo), hogweed
A semi-prostrate annual herb with ascending flowering stems up to 60 cm tall. A common weed.
The whole plant and particularly the root is used medicinally in Bas-Congo as a snake bite antidote and to counter inflammation. Goats eat the plants and sometimes return home with edible caterpillars, also called Batabata, around their mouths.
In Tibet, it is quite common to prostrate along a circumambulation path. In this case, the prostrator will make a full-body prostration, then step forward to the spot where his or her hands reached, and prostrate again from that spot. As you can imagine, this takes an enormous amount of time and physical and mental effort and is considered to provide a huge increase in the spiritual benefit of the kora.
Prostrate Knotweed at Green Acres Park, Clovis, Curry Co., NM, 120929. Polygonum aviculare. Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales: Polygonaceae. AKA (P. heterophyllum, P. monspeliense).
Kleinia pendula has prostrate marbled succulent stems that arch over and touch the soil where they root, sending out more stems. The inflorescence is a showy red pom-pom of many tiny flowers.
Large snakebush plant in five year old restoration site at Anketell Road in Jandakot Regional Park. Focus stacked image.
Introduced, warm-season, annual, prostrate to ascending, sparsely hairy herb to 60 cm tall. White latex appears where the plant is broken. Leaves are 0.6-3 cm long, opposite, and have 3 strong longitudinal veins, with reddish brown markings mostly along the central vein. Flowerheads are loose clusters of tiny “flowers”, with white or pink petal-like appendages. Flowering is in summer. A native of the Americas, it is found in dry disturbed; often on sandy soils. A minor weed of roadsides and waste areas. Little other information is available about its importance or management in NSW.
A prostrate herb that really is prickly, especially when the flower head dries, Prickfoot Eryngium vesiculosum from the Apiaceae family. It grows in damp areas.
it was a year ago yesterday that my little beefy lost his battle with prostrate cancer.
he put up a good fight & even though the vet only gave him a few weeks,
he surprised us all and made it through to the end of summer.
maybe it was all the special pampering, or the occasional steak or hamburger my dad would sneak him, or quite possibly the endless bowls of cottage cheese infused with flaxseed oil we'd begun to feed him. a remedy we'd discovered after googling to learn more about canine prostate cancer.
our family was privileged to have the little guy in our lives for the short 7 years he had on this planet.
we still miss him dearly.
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, 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, succulent, hairless prostrate herb. Stems are to 1 m long and root at the nodes. Leaves are linear to lanceolate or oblanceolate, to 7 cm long and 5–10 mm wide. Flowers are solitary, axillary and pedicellate. Perianth is tubular, pink, 5-lobed, with a dorsal fleshy mucro behind each apex. Stamens are numerous. Grows on sand or mud in subtropical to tropical coasts.
The tag on the plant I bought said this was a perennial baby's breath but it looks suspiciously like Gypsophila muralis 'Gypsy Deep Rose' which is an annual form. If so, it goes back this fall when it dies & I want a partial refund.
Sure it's pretty but I wanted something that was perennial. If it produces seeds though, I'll be happy & simply let it self-sow.
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.
A lion-headed humanoid laying prostrate, said to be an inhabitant of the 'Island of Atwaran', a mountainous island in the ocean inhabited by jinn, or demons. From a copy of ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing) by al-Qazwīnī (d. 1283/682). Neither the copyist nor illustrator is named, and the copy is undated. The nature of paper, script, ink, illumination, and illustrations suggest that it was produced in provincial Mughal India, possibly the Punjab, in the 17th century.
Erect, prostrate or occasionally clump-forming shrub to to 1.5 m tall, stems glabrous. Leaves oblanceolate or narrow-elliptic, mostly 5–30 mm long, usually 1–4 mm wide, rarely to 7 mm. Flowers in bracteate heads, terminal; peduncles mostly 1–40 mm long, glabrous. Bracts 4, sometimes 8; 4–19 mm long, 3–10 mm wide, often with a reddish tinge. Flowers are bisexual or female, 7–44 per head, white or occasionally pink, mostly 10–20 mm long, female flowers shorter. Flowers from winter to summer. Widespread. Toxic to stock, but not very palatable.
Prostrate knotweed. For more information on identification and control, visit turfweeds.cals.cornell.edu/plant/identify/227.
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.