The culms are usually in small, compressed, glaucous clumps that are either erect or decumbent. The stems are erect, ascending, decumbent, or prostrate and mostly branched. The stems are erect, decumbent or prostrate, and many grow from rhizomes. These are evergreen perennial herbs with stems growing erect or decumbent and creeping. The stem grows from a taproot and may grow erect or decumbent. These are perennial herbs with decumbent to prostrate stems up to 30 centimeters long. "Veronica perfoliata" is an erect woody herb with arching decumbent branches long. Some shrubby species have a decumbent growth habit. They are annual or perennial, with decumbent or erect stems. Its flowering stems are hollow, erect or more or less decumbent. The grass is tufted and erect or decumbent. The sterns are erect or decumbent at the base of the shrub. "Cakile" species grow as annual plants with an erect or decumbent stem. It grows decumbent or erect to a maximum height near 60 centimeters. It has rough, grey fibrous bark, distinctive decumbent branching and dense foliage.