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Galinsoga quadriradiata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae which is known by several common names, including shaggy soldier, [2] [3] Peruvian daisy, hairy galinsoga. Its native home is apparently central Mexico , although it has become naturalized in many other places (North and South America, Europe, Japan, Philippines ...
Oxylobium, commonly known as shaggy-peas, [2] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, all of which are endemic to Australia.Plants in the genus Oxylobium are prostrate or erect shrubs with simple leaves with the edges turned down, flowers in racemes, clusters or corymbs with 5 sepals, the standard petal longer than the wings and keel, and inflated oval or oblong pods.
Oxylobium ellipticum is a spreading much branched shrub up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) high. The leaves are in irregular whorls of three or four, elliptic, sometimes lance-shaped, rarely heart-shaped, 0.5–3 cm (0.20–1.18 in) long, 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) wide, leathery, brown tomentose beneath, dark green, reticulate veins and margins recurved, apex blunt, often with an abrupt point.
Oxylobium arborescens is an upright shrub to 5 m (16 ft) high with stems covered in soft, silky hairs. The dark green leaves may be in irregular whorls of three or arranged opposite, linear, narrowly elliptic or oblong, usually 3–5 cm (1.2–2.0 in) long, 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) wide, petiole about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, margins rolled under.
Oxylobium cordifolium, commonly known as the heart-leaved shaggy pea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a small, prostrate shrub with long, wiry branches, heart-shaped leaves and orange-red flowers.
Staminate flowers are borne on long-stalked catkins at the tip of old wood or in the axils of the previous season's leaves. Pistillate flowers occur in short terminal spikes. [ 6 ] The fruit is a drupe 2.5 to 4 cm (1 to 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, an edible nut with a hard, bony shell, contained in a thick, green four-sectioned husk which turns dark ...
Erigeron aphanactis is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name rayless daisy, [2]: 121 or rayless shaggy fleabane. [3] This wildflower is native to the western United States, primarily the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau regions (eastern California, Nevada, Utah, western Colorado, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, southern Idaho, eastern ...
Podolobium scandens is a low, spreading, prostrate shrub with branches sometimes up to 60 cm (24 in) long. The leaves are mostly arranged opposite, oval to egg-shaped to elliptic, 1–7 cm (0.39–2.76 in) long, 5–25 mm (0.20–0.98 in) wide, margins more or less finely scalloped, upper surface dark green, shiny and veined, lower surface paler with occasional hairs, apex either sharp ...