April, 1902.] Trailing and Creeping Plants of Ohio. 



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TRAILING AND CREEPING PLANTS OF OHIO. 



Alice Dufour. 



Lines of demarcation between creeping forms and climbing 

 forms and also between creeping forms and those that are nearly 

 decumbent do not exist. Creeping plants do not include those 

 with special runners like the strawberr}-, or those with deep 

 underground root-stalks like some lilies, or those forming mats 

 like some of the spurges. Under the term creeping plants are 

 included such forms as are prostrate and spread as do the melons, 

 or such as spread b}^ the stems striking root as does the winter- 

 green. 



There are about 42 creepers in Ohio. Of these 8 are annuals, 



34 are perennials ; 9 wood}-, 33 herbaceous ; 26 native, and 16 



introduced. These are : 



Ranunculus repens, herbaceous perennial from Europe. 

 Rubus hispidus, 



villosus, woody plants. 

 Dalibarda repens, herbaceous perennial. 

 Potentilla canadensis, herbaceous jierennial. 

 Trifolium repens, herbaceous perennial. 

 Lespedeza repens, 



procumbens, herbaceous perennials. 

 Lathyrus maritimus, 



palustrus, 



myrtifolius, herbaceous perennials. 

 Vicia hirsuta, annual from Europe. 



