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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.
Native, warm season, annual or sometimes perennial, prostrate to decumbent herb with stems to 25 cm long. Leaves are obovate to oblanceolate and to 25 mm long. Flowers are in 2–30-flowered heads. Petals are yellow and 4–7 mm long; scarcely exceeding the sepals. Stamens number < 20. Capsules (without calyx and corolla) are 3–6 mm long and contain black seeds. Flowering is from August to March. Grows as a weed in disturbed areas and is common on cultivated land.
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 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.
Septenary/Octonary Ingredients of Important Traditional Herbal Formulations from Pankaj Oudhia’s Medicinal Plant Database
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"Prostrate to ascending or erect shrub, 0.05-1 m high. Fl. white-cream-blue-purple, Jun to Dec or Jan to Feb. Sand, gravel, laterite, limestone. Sand dunes & plains." florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/12585
Photos: Fred and Jean
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.
"Prostrate, spreading perennial, herb, to 0.05 m high. Yellow, grey or brown clayey sand, loam. Slopes, low plains, drainage lines of swampy flats." florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/29380
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.
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.
Occasional and locally abundant in the Bozeman area, prostrate pigweed like other species in the genus requires sites with high levels of disturbance, such as this site that was recently landscaped. 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 West Harrison Street on the Montana State University campus, Bozeman.
Hypericum calycinum is a prostrate or low-growing shrub species of the genus Hypericum (Clusiaceae). Widely cultivated for its large yellow flowers, its name as a garden plant include Rose of Sharon in Britain and Australia, and Aaron's beard, Great St-John's wort, and Jerusalem star.
It is a low, creeping, woody shrub to about 1 m tall and 1–2 m wide but often smaller. The green, ovate leaves grow in opposite pairs. The solitary flowers are 3–5 cm in diameter, a rich yellow, with five petals and numerous yellow stamens. It is indigenous to southeast Europe and southwest Asia. It is a popular, semi-evergreen garden shrub with many named cultivars and hybrids derived from it.
Hypericum 'Hidcote', a hybrid
form used as a garden shrub
In North America the name Rose of Sharon is applied to a species in a different order, Hibiscus syriacus.
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Lhasa Tibet
The Barkhor Plaza & Jokhang Temple
The Pilgrims prostrating in front of the temple.
Legs are tied with rope.
Before we realized how tiny and prostrate these little lupines were, we planted some seeds in our poppy/lupine beds in the front yard, but they will likely never see the light of day amongst the big poppies and lupines. In the rock garden in the back yeard, we planted one sky lupine (lupinus nanus), so hopefully we can keep an eye on it.
Man prostrating, showing respect, in front of the Golden Temple.
Armristsar, 03/17/15
Photo by Alice Guilhamon.
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.
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.
Anemone are perennials that have basal leaves with long leaf-stems that can be upright or prostrate. Leaves are simple or compound with lobed, parted, or undivided leaf blades. The leaf margins are toothed or entire.
Flowers with 4-27 sepals are produced singly, in cymes of 2-9 flowers, or in umbels, above a cluster of leaf- or sepal-like bracts. Sepals may be any color. They are bisexual 10 to 200 stamens and many simple pistils. The pistils have one ovule. The flowers have nectaries, but petals are missing in the majority of species.
The fruits are ovoid to obovoid shaped achenes that are collected together in a tight cluster, ending variously lengthened stalks; though many species have sessile clusters terminating the stems. The achenes are beaked and some species have feathery hairs attached to them
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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.
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.
Prostrate Broom (Cytisus scoparius ssp. maritimus). The maritime subspecies of Broom, confined to sea cliffs. Young stems are distinctively silkily-downy and silvery. Les Landes, Jersey.
Native, warm season, perennial, prostrate, spreading herb to 30 cm diameter, developing a thick rootstock. Leaves are circular to ovate with toothed margins, 1–3 cm long, whitish and felt-like below; main veins sunken, giving a ‘corrugated’ appearance. Flowers are yellow, with 5 petals, each petal 4–5 mm long; borne on slender stalks from leaf axils. Fruits are flattened, globular, about 5 mm across, consisting of 5–10 wedge-shaped mericarps. Flowering is mainly in spring, but also in summer after favourable rains. Found in most vegetation communities. Grows on a variety of soil types, including sands and clays. Extremely drought tolerant. Grows throughout the warmer months of the year following suitable rainfall. Provides palatable forage for stock. Useful groundcover - protects soil. Provides pollen for native insects.
Cleopatra's Needle, Shaft: (Egyptian hieroglyphics) Cleopatra's Needle, Plaque, River facing: THIS OBELISK, HAVING FALLEN PROSTRATE IN THE SAND AT ALEXANDRIA,/ WAS IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE/ OF NELSON AND ABERCROMBY,/ PRESENTED TO THE BRITISH NATION, A.D. 1819,/ BY MOHAMMED ALI, VICEROY OF EGYPT. ENCASED IN AN IRON CYLINDER IT WAS ROLLED INTO/ THE SEA/ AUGUST 29, 1877./ ABANDONED IN A STORM IN THE BAY OF BISCAY,/ IT WAS RECOVERED AND TAKEN INTO FERROL HARBOUR/ WHENCE, IN CHARGE OF CAPTAIN CARTER, IT REACHED/ THE THAMES, JANUARY 20, 1878. Plaque on the plinth of the Sphinx: THE SCARS THAT DISFIGURE THE PEDESTAL/ OF THE OBELISK, THE BASES OF THE SPHINXES/ AND THE RIGHT SPHINX, WERE CAUSED/ BY FRAGMENTS OF A BOMB DROPPED IN THE/ ROADWAY CLOSE TO THIS SPOT, IN THE FIRST RAID ON LONDON BY GERMAN AEROPLANES A/ FEW MINUTES BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON TUESDAY/ 4TH SEPTEMBER 1917
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.
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.
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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* no given name / no name found in the regional language(s) of the state
Names compiled / updated at Names of Plants in India.