This delightful ground-hugging plant has bright yellow flowers in May that rise up from tight foliage.

In cold climates, junipers are excellent ground-hugging plants that thrive in the sun.

Moss campion is a low, ground-hugging plant.

Without a blush I eyed ground-hugging plants and reeled off their names: Hex, Ponder, Explicit, and Envy.

It was an accurate name, for stone fields they were, the ground surface studded with rocks, the soil between and under them less than three centimeters thick, supporting a community of small ground-hugging plants.

The latter is a vigorous ground-hugging plant that can spread to 4 or 5 metres across yet remains only 50 centimetres high.

The ground was rough, strewn with rounded stones the size of a person's head, studded with small, ground-hugging plants armed with heavy thorns.

Ilya led them on, across a meadow, over a rock-strewn slope, and through another meadow covered in very low, waxy-petaled yellow flowers and a deep red, ground-hugging plant that looked like rust rather than vegetation from even a short distance.

Acres of cacti and ground-hugging plants support populations of over half of the bird species found in Puerto Rico.

Those splotches of waxy light which marked certain trees, bushes, and scrubby ground-hugging plants were spreading, running together in pools.