creeping plant

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

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

The gems that magnify a woman's charm, As flowers the creeping plant, I do not harm.

From The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika by Arthur William Ryder

Before it became completely dark, Ahmed collected some long strands of a creeping plant that grew plentifully in the copse.

From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

No doubt the creeping plant would in a few seconds have attracted special attention, had not an incident turned their minds in another direction.

From The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by Francis B. Pearson

It is a low creeping plant, with yellow flowers; after they drop off, and the pods begin to form, they bury themselves in the earth, where they come to maturity.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds