Creeping plants

H.R. Waller
Date: 6 October, 2008
Time: 1043
Location: off the sidewalk between Rogers and Smith
Weather: partly cloudy, no rain, 63 degrees

As I was walking back form class this morning I happened to notice a little gently sloping hill on the west side of the sidewalk running between Smith and Rogers. It was filled with a plethora of vegetation that from a distance all looks the same as if a green throw blanket was draped across the hill with a random tree and a few taller plants peeping out. But at closer examination, it is observed that the hill is covered in mainly one type of plant. It is a little leafy thing that looks like it may be some type of invasive weed, except that it doesn't really subtract from the aesthetics of the area, but rather it fills up the space making it look somehow more coherent. The plant's leaves are a deep green color that fade to black on the ends, and they are in little clusters of five. Its leaves are oblong shaped and the length of my thumb, but a little wider. The plant is filling up the entire hillside and even beginning to creep up on to the trunk of the lone tree that makes this spot its home.