Midgardroots are the dominant vermiphyte group of the Western Continent's savannas. With the horizontal, subterraneous bodies reaching lengths up to 200 m, they are Red Earth's largest lifeforms. This enormous size is possible because they don't have to transport water upwards like the vertical-bodied vermiphytes and because their buried bodies are protected from most herbivores and abiotic dangers. The leaves, usually the only part of the midgardroots that is visible above ground, are usually able to regrow damages, or are protected by poisons or sclerotisations. The head part is curved backwards and snakes through the ground on a lower level than the body, with the roots being long and reaching deeply into the soil. While the fertilisation usually happens by wind-borne male gametes, the distribution of seeds happens in very different ways. Immersing them in a nutritive gel to attract pneumonopteres and smaller tetragnathes isn't uncommon, other ways of distribution are gliding capsules, cannon-like ovipositors firing the seeds over a distance of several metres or simply dropping them to the ground in the case of smaller, gregarious species. The wadi midgardroot forms two different types of seeds: swimming seeds that are carried downstream when the wadi is flooded and very small seeds submerged in a sugar-rich mass to attract a specific kind of micropneumonoptere that breeds in the mountainous regions the wadis originate from, so the midgardroot can spread both downstream as well as upstream.
Ragleaf: A fairly common species that has indefinitely growing leaves. This is necessary, since a lot of herbivores feed on them. The herbivores usually will not touch the thickened base, where the leaves regenerate from.
Bloodgrass: This midgardroot's species leaves are separated into bushels of spine-like leaves, each of them containing a woodlike rod for stabilisation and warding off herbivores.
Legtrapper: One of the rare, larger midgardroots with an above-ground body. It protects itself both by sharp-edged leaves and a very foul taste. Areas where this species grows is usually avoided by larger herbivores because of the danger of tripping as well as because of the sharp leaves.
Squarrose bulbleaf: Bulbleaves are very short-bodied midgardroots that live in the drier parts of savannas up to the half-deserts. Their thick, water-storing bodies are buried fairly deep and the head grows vertically to reach groundwater. The bulbous leaf bases contain glands that produce noxious chemicals that are distributed into the leaves and can be excreted from the bulbs directly if the bulbleaf is disturbed.
Dimorphophyllous midgardrunt: Midgardrunts belong to the strangest midgardroots, as they are both short-bodied and not buried. The leaves of the hind part of the dimorphophyllous midgardrunt are developed as spines curving over the functional leaves of the front part and protecting them.
