The rhizome, found directly below surface is whitish, and tends to form dense clonal colonies.
Cape Colony | MacDowell Colony | colony | Gold Coast (British colony) | Colony | Plymouth Colony | Massachusetts Bay Colony | Red River Colony | Swan River Colony | Transvaal Colony | Orange River Colony | Colony of Virginia | Roanoke Colony | Old Colony Railroad | Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America | Pilgrim (Plymouth Colony) | Hindu colony | Crown Colony | Crown colony | Connecticut Colony | bird colony | art colony | William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor) | The Colony | Colony of Vancouver Island | clonal colony | artists' colony | Art colony | Ant colony | Abramtsevo Colony |
One of the more notable species is the Creosote Bush (L. tridentata) of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico The King Clone ring in the Mojave Desert is a Creosote Bush clonal colony estimated to be 11,700 years old.
In 2006 a huge clonal colony of Posidonia oceanica, was discovered south of the island of Ibiza.