Jack Dykinga / Dramatic rosette of spiked leaves of a Yucca plant, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Nigel Cattlin / Hairy bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta) leaf rosette with pinnate leaves, growing as garden weed. Berkshire, England, UK. May.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Pyrenean violet (Ramonda myconi) growing in a gryke, the sheltered crevice of limestone pavement, Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, Pyrenees, Aragon, Spain, July.

Dong Lei / Panicled Yellow Poppy (Meconopsis paniculata) leaf rosette, Makalu Mountain, Mount Qomolangma National Park, Dingjie County, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Tibet China, Asia

Dong Lei / Panicled Yellow Poppy (Meconopsis paniculata) leaf rosette, Makalu Mountain, Mount Qomolangma National Park, Dingjie County, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Tibet China, Asia

John Waters / Wide angle view of Male Fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) with spreading rosette of fronds, growing in leafless deciduous woodland in Devon, UK, December 2013.

John Waters / Wide angle view of Male Fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) with spreading rosette of fronds, growing in leafless deciduous woodland in Devon, UK, December 2013.

John Waters / Wide angle view of Male Fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) with spreading rosette of fronds, growing in old railway cutting near Ilfracombe, Devon, UK, December 2013.

Charlie Summers / The Rosette Nebula / Caldwell 49 and in the Monoceros Cloud of the Milky Way. Eastern Colorado, USA. Taken on the night of 7-8 October 2013, with digital focus stacking.

Colin Varndell / Common / Round-leaved sundew (Drosera sp) close up of rosette, Dorset, UK July.

Adrian Davies / Zoned rosette fungus (Podoscypha multizonata) parasitic on oak, Sussex, Englands, UK, October

Christian Ziegler / Gesneria (Chrysothemis friedrichsthaliana) arranges its few leaves in a rosette close to the ground to avoid overlap, Barro Colorado Island, Panama