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From a Master Naturalist
Seed Dispersal: Observing Mother Nature at Work
Walking around the yard, as I do frequently, I often notice new plants that weren’t there before, and I always think about how that particular plant came to be in that particular spot. For trees, some shrubs and some perennials, one way new plants are created are what are called “root sprouts” in which the root of the parent plant sends up a new shoot that is essentially a part of the parent plant and the shoot shares the root system of the parent.
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