Stolons

An example of a perennial grassy weed; reproduction is by above-ground runners called stolons as well as by seeds. ❋ Unknown (1981)

Those aboveground, the true stems, are called stolons, and those below, from which the roots spread, are rhizomes. ❋ Ward Moore (1940)

It can become a troublesome weed in a lawn because it produces many horizontal stems, called stolons, that run along the soil's surface. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The stems known as stolons wander both aboveground and below, striking roots as they go. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The ends of the stolons are the spot that potatoes grow. ❋ JakeJung (2009)

Underground stems such as stolons and rhizomes occur in some grasses. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

One of the commonest moulds is the one here figured (Fig.  32), and named _Mucor stolonifer_, from the runners, or "stolons," by which it spreads from one point to another. ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)

Nevertheless, I won't allow our vegetable 'stolons' to be despised. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

Clumps slowly expand by short stolons, but do not spread invasively like Liriope spicata. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The reason for dividing is not only to separate the many divisions and new bulbs on the prolific stolons, but to set the bulbs deeper. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Many plants also have methods of asexual reproduction (vegetative reproduction), which produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent: root-sprouting (limberbush, palo verde, aspen), stolons and rhizomes (agaves, strawberries, many grasses), and aerial plantlets (some agaves, mother-of-millions, kalanchoe). ❋ Unknown (2009)

This deliberately introduced species spreads by stolons, and will probably continue to invade native thickets and displace native plants. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Many warm-climate grasses (Saint Augustine and hybrid Bermuda) are typically started from sod (or from pieces of vegetation called sprigs or stolons)—not from seeds. ❋ Jeff Wuorio (2003)

Basal bulb up to 8 mm and covered by brown to blackish scales and with very slender stolons ending in new roots. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Description: Grass, normally 0. 5-1.5 m high, spreading by above-ground stolons which root at the nodes. ❋ Unknown (1999)