decumbent

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Most arrived more or less by acceptable means, but the suburban affliction defined as "a grass with creeping or decumbent stems which root freely at the nodes" sneaked in.

From Time Magazine Archive

The root of the hoary, decumbent, and less elegant, but larger-flowered Hedysarum mackenzii is poisonous, and nearly killed an old Indian woman at Fort Simpson, who had mistaken it for that of the preceding species.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Woody at base; two to eight feet high; erect or decumbent.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

These are tall leafy slender perennial grasses, with branching stems erect or geniculately ascending from a creeping or decumbent base.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Low, much branched and decumbent; leaves narrowly obovate-oblong, contracted at the base, thin; petals linear-oblong; styles 2, very short; pod flat.—Nantucket; pine barrens of N. J. to S. Ill.,

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa