Sentence examples for rootstalk from inspiring English sources

Rhizome, also called creeping rootstalk, horizontal underground plant stem capable of producing the shoot and root systems of a new plant.

Those stalkless hollow leaves spring from the rootstalk and are 40 85 cm (16 33 inches) tall.

These grasslike members of the iris family (Iridaceae) bear starry, yellow, white, or blue to violet flowers with six petallike segments and wiry, fibrous rootstalks.

It is 30 to 100 cm (12 to 40 inches) tall, with soft, blue-green leaves; its creeping rootstalks form a good sod.

The genus Nymphoides, known for its fringed water lily, water snowflake, and floating heart, comprises submerged plants with buried rootstalks and floating leaves.