procumbent

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Capsule membranaceous, circumscissile, the top falling off like a lid, many-seeded.—Low, spreading or procumbent herbs, mostly annuals, with opposite or whorled entire leaves, and solitary flowers on axillary peduncles.

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

Sanvitalia procumbens flore-pleno: half-hardy, 6 in., golden yellow; procumbent.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

On the steep bluffs along the river was often a heavy growth of red cedar; and some large areas of procumbent juniper occurred.

From The Mammals of Washtenaw County, Michigan Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, No. 123 by Wood, Norman

Of these characters length of internode was carried by the Bush, and the procumbent habit by the original Cupid parent.

From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall

Fruit dry, twin, of 2 indehiscent 1-seeded carpels.—A slender procumbent herb, with square stems, lanceolate pungent leaves in whorls of 4–6, and small subsessile blue or pinkish flowers surrounded by a gamophyllous involucre.

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