creeping plant

In seeking the door, I turned an angle: there shot out the friendly gleam again, from the lozenged panes of a very small latticed window, within a foot of the ground, made still smaller by the growth of ivy or some other creeping plant, whose leaves clustered thick over the portion of the house wall in which it was set.

Nothing was too insignificant for Frigg to ask, save only the mistletoe, a creeping plant that lives on other trees.

Central Florida is all creeping plant life, juicy and teeming, ready to suck up everything.

But the new trend soon gripped Argentina like the tendrils of a creeping plant, extending north from Córdoba through neighboring provinces and east to Buenos Aires, where cocktails made with vodka and whiskey had been the norm.

When a creeping plant propagates itself by runners, when a Nais or Myrianida breaks up into a series of similar segments, each of which becomes a worm like the parent, we have to do with the general fact that growing organisms tend to display a symmetrical repetition of equivalent parts, and that reproduction by fission is simply a special case of metamerism.