buckbean

Noun
  1. Perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves;
    Often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface (synset 112505289)
    is a type of: aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant - a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth
    belongs to: genus menyanthes, menyanthes - the type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeans
    same as: bog myrtle, bogbean, marsh trefoil, menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock

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