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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.
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.
Spreading semi-prostrate shrub, 0.2–0.5 m high; branchlets pubescent.
Leaves mostly elliptic to ± oblanceolate, 5.3–23 mm long, 1.8–5.5 mm wide, margins scarious, finely toothed; lamina glabrous, upper surface flat or concave; petiole to 1 mm long.
Flowers erect, cream, pale yellow-green or occasionally pink or red; bracteoles 2.9–3.6 mm long, glabrous. Sepals 7–9 mm long, pubescent but with margins ± glabrous, pink-tipped. Corolla tube 12.5–15 mm long; lobes 13–17.5 mm long. Filaments 11–14 mm long; anthers 4.3–5.8 mm long.
Fruit 4.3–8.5 mm long, slightly lobed.
(Source: plantnet)
We had an awefully chipper time in Toowoomba today with the Movebmer Tweed Ride, not to Tweed Heads (heaven forbid) but dressed in tweed and a jolly good time was had by all. The serious side of this event is about the money raised for prostrate cancer and depression in men. The challenge, so ably met by the men, was to sport a mustache for the month of November. I like this picture because it so aptly portrays the style of the moment, cup of tea in hand, the paper tucked under the arm, a jaunty cap and tally-ho off we go. Congratulations to Justin Eastwell for organising the event. It was great to be a part of it.
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Native, perennial, prostrate succulent herb with creeping stems to 2 m long that root at the nodes where they touch the ground. Leaves are 3-sided 3.5–10 cm long, straight or slightly incurved and dull blue-green when young; often becoming pinkish-red when old. Found on coastal sand dunes, usually very close to the sea.
Introduced, warm-season, annual or perennial, prostrate to ascending herb. Stems are pubescent to woolly or hairless and to 25 cm tall. Leaves are opposite, oblong to more or less spathulate and 2–5 cm long; upper surface is sparsely hairy to hairless, lower surface is pubescent to woolly. Flowerheads are 1–4 cm long, 1–1.2 cm wide. Perianth segments are white, shining and papery. A native of America, it is a widespread weed.
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.
Why do we prostrate before parents and elders?
We prostrate before our elders – parents, teachers and noble souls. When we meet our elders especially on significant occasions: beginning of a new task, birthdays, festivals etc., we bow down to them. Touching the feet of our elders while prostrating, is a sign of respect for their age, maturity, nobility and divinity.
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.
Native, perennial, prostrate to ascending, hairless herb with stems to 20 cm long. Plant base is woody with a thick or woody rhizome. Leaves are circular to oblong and 2–10 mm long, with entire or finely toothed margins. cyathia are solitary in the axils of leaves and are very small. Involucre of glands about 0.7 mm long and with red (with pink or white), petaloid appendages. Widespread throughout NSW in bare or disturbed sites.
Prostrate,warm-season, perennial herb forming dense mats up to 1.6 m across. Stems are thick and woody. Grey, hairy, slightly succulent, roughly spoon-shaped leaves are alternately arranged along the stems and 4–25 mm long. Flowers are tiny white to pink, found in the leaf axils and have 5 "petals" and 10 stamens. Fruit are small (2-3 mm across) cup-shaped capsules containing a small number of seeds. Flowering is from spring through to autumn. Not very common, but may be locally abundant, especially in the Hunter Valley. Often forms dense mats on roadsides, lawns, wasteland, and other disturbed areas. Tolerates drought and soil salinity. Most commonly found in areas receiving summer rainfall, on loam soils. Does not persist in areas that are regularly and frequently grazed. Successfully planted to stabilise mine tailing dumps, but has spread from there.
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.
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.
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.
Native prostrate perennial herb in southern Taiwan -- Hengchun peninsula; distributed in Tropical Asia, etc.
Introduced warm-season perennial prostrate ephemeral or perennial herb. Stems are softly hairy, to 60 cm long and root at the nodes. Leaves are stalked, obovate to circular, 0.5–5 cm long, mostly hairless. Flowerheads are oval, to 15 mm long and 10 mm wide. Bracts are lanceolate and pungent pointed. A native o South America, it is a widespread weed of bare ground and disturbed areas.
Ornamental herb introduced from Europe. On mud near low water mark, N bank Mill Pond W of Knight St footbridge, Hyde Park, MA 9/24/14
in bloom. in fruit.
18 October 2010
Lake Allen
North Tract
Patuxent Research Refuge
Anne Arundel County
Odenton Quad
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Family : Proteaceae
Here at Round Hill Headland near Town of 1770 this species occurs side by side in both red and white (or cream) coloured forms with there being more on the site of the cream form than the red form.
Interestingly, this is the site where Captain Cook and Joseph Banks, presumably who the species was named after, came ashore on the 24th May 1770.
The following is from Tony Rodd - re the naming of Grevillea banksia.
G. banksii was named by Robert Brown in 1810, in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Brown stated its origin as "In Novae Hollandiae ora orientale: Keppel Bay, Pine Port, &c". The actual specimen in the British Museum, chosen as lectotype by McGillivray and Makinson from among Brown's collections in the British Museum, is cited by them as "Port I [between Facing and Curtis Islands, near Gladstone]".
Here is a few other pics I have of a taller growing red form of Grevillea banksii I have growing here at home.
Here is a shot by tanetahi, with an interesting explanation, showing both red and cream plants of the taller variety growing together on the Herberton Range in North Queensland.
Introduced, warm-season, annual or perennial, prostrate to ascending herb. Stems are pubescent to woolly or hairless and to 25 cm tall. Leaves are opposite, oblong to more or less spathulate and 2–5 cm long; upper surface is sparsely hairy to hairless, lower surface is pubescent to woolly. Flowerheads are 1–4 cm long, 1–1.2 cm wide. Perianth segments are white, shining and papery. A native of America, it is a widespread weed.
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.
I believe this to be the Couch Honeypot (Banksia dallanneyi) but I am open to corrections! [York, Western Australia]