ground cover

Noun
  1. Low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow (synset 113133186)
    is a type of: botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period
    subtypes:
    • hernaria glabra, rupturewort - common prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures
    • whitlowwort - any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)
    • pearl-weed, pearlweed, pearlwort - any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls
    • baby tears, baby's tears, helxine soleirolia, soleirolia soleirolii - prostrate or creeping Corsican herb with moss-like small round short-stemmed leaves
    same as: groundcover
  2. Small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor (synset 113133055)
    is a type of: underbrush, undergrowth, underwood - the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
    same as: groundcover

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