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Here a man prostrates before entering the main temple.
The Palcho Monastery was founded in 1418 by Rabten Kunzang Phak, the second Prince of Gyantse, who was a devotee of Kedrub Je, a prominent disciple of Je Tsongkhapa and later recognized as the first Panchen Lama.
The monastery is unique for its multi-denominational character, housing three different sects of Tibetan Buddhism: the Sakyapa, Gelugpa, and the obscure Buton suborder. This coexistence of multiple sects under one roof is rare among Tibetan monasteries.
The monastery has experienced significant historical events, including partial destruction during the 1959 Tibetan uprising and subsequent restoration. It was also affected during the Cultural Revolution but has, once more, since been largely restored.
The monastery's architecture reflects a blend of Han, Tibetan, and Nepali styles.
Prostrate form with Forest and rain garden interpretive sign at Wahikuli Wayside Park Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii.
February 14, 2023
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.
I saw this guy Monday morning, headed south through Seward Park. He was prostrating along, repeating a slow steady cycle of motions: laying face-down on the sidewalk, standing up, a moment of still meditation, a single step forward, over and over.
Later Monday afternoon, I saw him sitting in the lotus position in the shade of a telephone pole, just a couple blocks from our house.
On Tuesday, I saw him continuing southward through Rainier Beach. Wednesday, I rode my bike around looking for him, but never saw him.
Then today, Thursday, we were driving up through Renton and there he was, a couple miles south of where I had last seen him, still headed south. He was just entering the Renton city limits here. He's more sunburned now than earlier in the week, and he wasn't going to 100% flat on the pavement (which is very hot this afternoon), instead just touching his head to his hands as shown here.
I would love to talk to him about what he's doing, but he seems quite focused and I don't want to disturb him. Another south-end mystery. Does he live nearby? Does he have a specific destination? Has he been sleeping indoors somewhere this week? Who knows.
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.
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.
rhamnus crocea or redberry. this one is ancient - w/ an amazing burled trunk just under that tight cover of pinhead-sized leaves. i don't know what all those holes are, but they look like they were created by some kind of rodent who had some relationship w/ the redberry. very odd.
Covered with fibrous leaf bases. All apparently connected to modest sprout at right. Dry vernal pool, N slope Wampatuck Hill, Blue Hills Reservation, Quincy, MA 9/22/19
Chenopodium oahuense (Aweoweo)
Prostrate form from Ilio Pt Molokai in garden with Lorna at Hanamu Rd Makawao, Maui, Hawaii.
June 03, 2009
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.
Prostrate Verbena on Galinas Peak, Lincoln Co., NM, 070903. Verbena bracteata. Asterids: Lamiales: Verbenaceae. AKA(bigbract verbena, prostrate vervain, and carpet vervain).
Native cool-season perennial prostrate to sprawling shrub with stems to 60 cm long. Leaves are usually oppositely arranged and 10-70 mm long x 5-25 mm wide; the upper surface has a network of veins and is darker than the lower surface, Stipules are bristly and 2-3 mm long. Flowerheads are terminal or axillary racemes. Flowers are about 10 mm long, pea-shaped and have 5 sepals and petals. Sepals are typically recurved. Petals are yellow to orange, often with reddish brown markings. Flowers in spring. Found in forests from the coast to the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Prostrate to erect shrub to 1.5 m high; stems covered with spreading, stiff hairs.
Leaves spirally twisted, linear to narrow-oblong, usually 3–8 mm long, apex acute to shortly acuminate and often incurved, smooth to tuberculate, covered with stiff hairs or if ± glabrous then usually with stiff hairs near apex.
Inflorescences 1–8-flowered; peduncle usually <0.1 cm long, often bearing bracts below the flowers; bracts 1–2 mm long; bracteoles 1–2 mm long. Calyx 4–6 mm long, covered externally with stiff hairs or occasionally the hairs few or absent. Standard 7–12 mm long.
Pod 5–7 mm long; seeds smooth.
Grows in dry sclerophyll woodland to forest on acidic, well-drained soils.
Source: PlantNET
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
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Names compiled / updated at Names of Plants in India.
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 kora is performed by walking or repeatedly prostrating oneself. Prostration (e.g., versus walking), circumambulating repeatedly or an auspicious number of times all produce greater merit.
The ancient circuit follows a path around the exterior of the Jokhang Temple, along Barkhor Street, which now runs all the way around the temple. Barkhor Street, a popular place for visiting foreign tourists, gets its name from the fact that it is “between” the Nangkhor Kora and the old city of Lhasa. The kora is 1,500 meters long, and starts at the main entrance to the temple. The circuit follows Barkhor Street all the way around the temple, with the smoke of burning juniper filling the air, and crowds of tourists and Tibetans following the route.
Acrotriche serrulata (Honey-pots)
Dense, prostrate to decumbent shrub to about. 30 cm high; branchlets finely pubescent. Leaves linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3.5–11 mm long, 0.5–1.7(–2.5) mm wide, mucronate, flat, sparsely pubescent to pilose on both surfaces (at least when young), lower surface with 3–5(–7) unbranched subparallel veins separated by shallow glaucous grooves; margins plane to slightly recurved, scabrous to pilose.
Flowers in 5–12-flowered spikes on old wood (often below leafy region); corolla sometimes maroon-tinged; tube transluscent, Fruit depressed-globose, flat-topped, 2.5–3.5 mm long, greyish-green, indumentum persisting.
Flowers mainly Jun - Nov
Introduced warm-season perennial, prostrate, variously hairy herb, with a swollen woody rootstock; nodes are hairy. Leaves are both radical and cauline; radical leaves are shed early; leaves are opposite, ovate to spathulate, to 20 mm long, to 8 mm wide and hairy when young. Flowerheads are spike-like, woolly, usually about 10-flowered (1–30) and often crowded towards the ends of branches. Flowers are bisexual, sessile, with a bract and a bracteole. Perianths are 5-lobed, membranous, whitish and about 2 mm long. Flowers in summer and autumn. Usually grows in mown disturbed areas, roadsides, caravan parks etc.
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.
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.
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.