A stolon is an aerial shoot from a plant with the ability to produce adventitious roots and new offshoots of the same plant. The complex formed by a mother plant and all its offshoot connected by stolons are considered to form a single individual. A stolon is a propagation strategy akin to a rhizome. Divisions Green algae Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum... In vascular plants, the root is that organ of a plant body that typically lies below the surface of the soil (compare with stem). ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... The word propagation can mean: Multiplication or increase, as by natural reproduction. ... In botany, a rhizome is a horizontal, usually underground stem of a plant that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. ...

Note that some species of crawling plants can also sprout adventitious roots, but these are not considered stoloniferous: a stolon is sprouted from an existing stem. In biology, a species is, loosely speaking, a group of related organisms that share a more or less distinctive form and are capable of interbreeding. ...

Examples of plants that extend through stolons include some species from the Fragaria, Hieracium genera, Silverweed and Bermuda Grass. Fragaria is a genus of the Rosaceae family, which includes the garden strawberry (Fragaria ananassa), Virginia strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), beach strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis), Hautbois strawberry (Fragaria moschata), and wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca). ... Species See text In botany, hawkweed refers to any species in the very large genus Hieracium of the sunflower family (Asteraceae), typically referred to as an aster. ... See genus (mathematics) for the use of the term in mathematics. ... Binomial name Potentilla anserina Silverweed is a flowering perennial in the rose family Rosaceae. ... Common Bermudagrass Species Bermuda Grass (Cynodon dactylon) - other common names include Bahama Grass, Devils Grass, Couch Grass, Indian Doab, Grama, Scutch Grass - is a highly desirable turf grass in southern climates zones 9 - 12 needed for those regions for its heat and drought tolerance. ...

See also

• Root
• Vegetative reproduction