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As the Latin name repens indicates, it is a low-growing plant with a creeping habit. [2] This evergreen perennial can be found in wet-zone rain forests. Growing to 50 cm (20 in) tall and broad, it has small kidney-shaped leaves borne on red stems, and hooded yellow flowers in summer and autumn.
Bulbophyllum evasum, commonly known as the creeping brittle orchid, [2] is a species of epiphytic or lithophytic orchid with creeping brittle rhizomes, small, stubby pseudobulbs and dark green, fleshy leaves. The flowers are small, pink to reddish with dark stripes and yellow tips, clustered on the end of a dark red flowering stem.
Both the stems and the leaves are finely hairy. The flowers are golden yellow, glossy, and 2–3 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) diameter, usually with five petals, and the flower stem is finely grooved. The gloss is caused by the smooth upper surface of the petal that acts like a mirror; the gloss aids in attracting pollinating insects and ...
The stem can creep over 2 meters long, sometimes branching. It spreads to form mats on the mud, or floats ascending in the water. The leaves are several centimeters long and are borne in alternately arranged clusters along the stem. The flower has 5 to 6 lance-shaped sepals beneath a corolla of 5 or 6 bright yellow petals up to 2.4 centimeters ...
The upper stem leaves are sessile, lanceolate, and shortly stalked. The inflorescence consists of nodding spikelike racemes with numerous drooping flowers. The flowers are bright blue-violet (rarely white), 2 to 4 centimetres (0.79 to 1.57 in) long, with short petioles standing to one side in the axils of the bracts. The bracts are quite ...
Chrysosplenium oppositifolium is a small, slightly hairy, creeping plant, with square stems. The leaves grow in opposite pairs, are rounded or oblong in shape and have blunt teeth. The tiny flowers grow between 3 and 4 mm, and are surrounded by bright yellow-green leafy bracts. It flowers from March to July.
Flower's appearance in visible, UVA, and NIR spectrums. The UV nectar guides may help attract bees. Glechoma hederacea is an aromatic, perennial, evergreen creeper of the mint family Lamiaceae. It is commonly known as ground-ivy, gill-over-the-ground, [2] creeping charlie, alehoof, tunhoof, catsfoot, field balm, and run-away-robin. [2]
This fern produces a creeping stem from which grow very long leaves, the longest exceeding 30 metres (98 feet). The leaves have rachises , which are vine-like and may climb other vegetation. What appear to be individual leaves sprouting from the twining rachis are actually leaflets, which are smaller segments from the main leaf.