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This is a prostrate hebe, spreading across alpine rocks and smothered in delicate pure white flowers.
Family: Scrophulariacea
Hebe are a common element of New Zealand flora. They are found growing in a wide variety of habitats from seashore to alpine meadows.
There are about 90 different specimens with a wide variety of growth forms from the tree-like hebe aborescens to small mountain whipcord hebe that resemble dwarf conifers.
Because of the profuse flowers that smother some species hebe are widely used horticulturally all over the world with a wide variety of hybrids and cultivars. Some of the flowers are also elborate and strikingingly coloured, ranging from whites and creams to reds, mauves, purples and blues.
The scientif name has recently been changed to Veronica but hebe remains the popular common name.
Ceanothus is a large genus of diverse, versatile and beautiful North American species in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae. Many are native to California, some endemic to Sonoma County. The genus includes over 60 shrubs, prostrate or mounding, often from 1-6 ft. high. Common names include California lilac, mountain lilac, wild lilac, buck brush, and, less commonly, blueblossom.
Ceanothus species are easily identified by a unique leaf venation shared by all plants within this genus. The ovate leaves, mostly with slightly serrated edges, have three prominent parallel veins extending from the leaf base to the outer margins of leaf tips. Leaves normally have a glossy upper surface and vary in size from ½-3 in. Many of the very drought-tolerant and deer-resistant species have spiny, holly-like leaves.
Blossoms are largely blue in a wide range of hues, but a few are white or pink. Flowers are tiny and produced in large, dense clusters that are intensely fragrant—some say overly so. Bloom period is generally March into May when flowers become food sources for larvae of some butterfly and moth species, bees, and other beneficial insects, all of which make ceanothus a component of habitat gardens or an Integrated Pest Management program.
Several members of the genus can form a symbiotic relationship with soil microbes and fungi, forming root nodules that fix nitrogen. This is a reason why fertilizing is not normally recommended. Adding fertilizer may kill good micro-organisms and make room for the bad ones. Ceanothus plants are better left fending for themselves.
Good drainage is a key for success with ceanothus, as with so many native plants. If soil and drainage are less than ideal, place rootballs on a mound a little higher than the surrounding grade. Or try to plant on slopes so the surface runoff drains more rapidly.
Most species need full sun, though in hotter areas some afternoon shade is beneficial. In garden plantings, those tolerating summer irrigation are easily satisfied by one or two deep waterings a month when established. In more naturalized areas, or transition zones, no additional summer water should be applied following the second year after planting.
While ceanothus can be shaped by tip pruning and cleaning out interior or low dead growth, it resents serious cutting back into old wood where shoots cannot be produced. Prune from the inside, lightly thinning, and removing a few lower limbs.
The ideal time to plant is late fall through early winter when rains can foster deep root growth. Throughout the following summer, watering should be infrequent, yet deep, allowing soil to dry out between soakings. Once established, plants require very little or no water.
Ceanothus is often said to be short-lived, but that may be caused by excess summer water and soil amendments. California native plants are generally intolerant of all of these. In their wild conditions, ceanothus plants have a natural life cycle of 10-15 years, some even longer, though fire sometimes shortens that span.
Generally, the smaller, more prickly and tougher the leaf, the greater the deer resistance.
Colubrina asiatica (Anapanapa)
Large trunk and prostrate habit at Wailea Coastal Walk, Maui, Hawaii.
February 22, 2017
Native, warm-season, perennial, prostrate to ascending herb. Stems are trailing, cottony hairy and up to 80 cm long. Leaves are 1-8 cm long, narrow-oblong to circular, hairless (or nearly so) above and hairless or cottony below; margins are lobed to entire. Found in grasslands, woodlands and forests; in full sun to partial shade.
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.
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, 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.
Introduced, cool season, annual, hairy, prostrate to ascending legume with branches to 90 cm long. Leaves are trifoliolate; leaflets obovate to obcordate, toothed towards the apex, densely hairy when young and sometimes with darker flecks. Flowerheads are 1- or 2-flowered. Flowers are yellow. Pods are coiled burrs. A native of Europe and western Asia, it occurs in pastures, disturbed ground, road edges, along water courses and on flats around swamps and lakes.
The ordinandi prostrate themselves before the altar while the choir and congegation sing the Litany of the Saints.
Remuremu or Swampweed (Selliera radicans), a prostrate, evergreen perennial found in estuarine areas of southern Australia, Chile and New Zealand. It is usually perfectly flat but can mound or scramble to 20cm high and may have a spread of up to 2m. The fan-shaped white flowers open in summer and are followed by small, fleshy, yellow-green fruits. Goodeniaceae. See more at www.cfgphoto.com/photos-selliera-3635.htm
Native, warm-season, perennial, prostrate to semi-erect, tufted grass to 70 cm tall. Found on low fertility soils in woodlands (e.g.
spotted gum country), scrub, roadsides and native or naturalised pastures.
A tiny, prostrate daphne in our rock garden. Yes, it is very fragrant, but you have to get on your knees to smell it.
The prostrate Pedicularis gruina flowering at Lijiang Alpine Botanic Garden, Yunnan Provence, China.
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.
Prostrate Ratany along County Road E034 east of Riverside, Chaves Co., NM, 180430. Krameria lanceolata. Rosids: Zygophyllales: Krameriaceae. AKA (Range Ratany)
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.
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.
Lhasa Tibet
The Barkhor Plaza & Jokhang Temple
The Pilgrims prostrating in front of the temple.
Legs are bound and tied with rope.
Right now I'm not thinking of other shots I will take today… the most important for me is that I have completed one of my Movember goals.
I didn't hit a target for fundraising, but I did grow my 'stache, donate to a couple of friends and I talked with about 100 youth in four sessions about the reasons behind Movember and my personal reasons for participation having known some who have suffered from this form of cancer.
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.
Pink prostrate flowers of a parasitic vine. Cuscuta (Dodder).
The long leaves of the host plant look like Variable Plantain (Plantago varia).
Derrimut Grassland.
Boundary road.
Derrimut.
Victoria.
Melway Map 39 K8
Cuscuta (Dodder) is a genus of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has shown that it is correctly placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. The genus is found throughout the temperate to tropical regions of the world, with the greatest species diversity in subtropical and tropical regions; the genus becomes rare in cool temperate climates, with only four species native to northern Europe.
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.
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.