Finding a purpose for a puffball, a reason for capsule wardrobes or an answer for post-ironic blouses is a pursuit that will buy you a one way ticket to a terminal vegetive state.
White clover persistence is dependent on vegetive proliferation of stolons in New Zealand (Chapman, 1987) and in the United Kingdom (Turkington et al., 1979), two countries with temperate climates recognized as having highly productive, permanent grass-legume pastures.
'Tis known I ever Have studied physic, through which secret art, By turning o'er authorities, I have, Together with my practice, made familiar To me and to my aid the blest infusions That dwells in vegetives, in metals, stones; And can speak of the disturbances That nature works, and of her cures; which doth give me A more content in course of true delight Than to be thirsty after tottering honor.