bog plant
Noun
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A semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land;
Most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc;
Possibly heath (synset 113143123)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 hyacinthsubtypes:- lesser spearwort, ranunculus flammula - semiaquatic Eurasian perennial crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears; naturalized in New Zealand
- greater spearwort, ranunculus lingua - semiaquatic European crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears
- caltha palustris, cowslip, kingcup, marsh marigold, may blob, meadow bright, water dragon - swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups
- rush - grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems
- acorus calamus, calamus, flagroot, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag - perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots
- calla palustris, water arum, wild calla - plant of wetlands and bogs of temperate regions having small greenish flowers partly enclosed in a white spathe and red berries
- lysichiton americanum, skunk cabbage - clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe
- foetid pothos, polecat weed, skunk cabbage, symplocarpus foetidus - deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe
- iva, marsh elder - any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers; common in moist areas (as coastal salt marshes) of eastern and central North America
- sedge - grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers
- cattail - tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes
- sabbatia - any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes
- yellow-eyed grass - any of several rushlike plants, especially of the pine barrens of southern United States
- alisma plantago-aquatica, water plantain - marsh plant having clusters of small white or pinkish flowers and broad pointed or rounded leaves
- arrow grass, triglochin maritima - tufted perennial found in shallow water or marshland; sometimes poisons livestock
- grass-of-parnassus, parnassia - any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup
- chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead - showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple
- american brooklime, brooklime, veronica americana - plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers
- brooklime, european brooklime, veronica beccabunga - European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America
- sium suave, water parsnip - stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; northern United States and Asia
- greater water parsnip, sium latifolium - large stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; Europe
- sium sisarum, skirret - an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root
- lizard's-tail, saururus cernuus, swamp lily, water dragon - North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers
same as: marsh plant, swamp plant
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