Crossword Puzzle Low-growing shrub

Clue: Low-growing shrub

Fuzz on that woman's low-growing shrubs (7) (A with 1 letters)
Its place is lower than dirt (SEED with 4 letters)
Fungi growing on decaying logs (EARTHTONGUES with 12 letters)
Activity during which the blinds are never lowered (TEXASHOLDEM with 11 letters)
Growing symbol (STATETREE with 9 letters)
Some toxic shrubs (SUMACS with 6 letters)
"A ginooine statesman should ___ his guard": J. R. Lowell (BEON with 4 letters)
Lowest class (STEERAGE with 8 letters)
Lower jaw (e.g. CHIN with 4 letters)
Lowly laborers (e.g. PEASANTS with 8 letters)