English > marsh plant: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath. |
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| Synonyms | bog plant, swamp plant |
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| Narrower | arrow grass, Triglochin maritima | tufted perennial found in shallow water or marshland |
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| brooklime, American 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 |
| cattail | tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves |
| greater spearwort, Ranunculus lingua | semiaquatic European crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears |
| greater water parsnip, Sium latifolium | large stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water |
| lesser spearwort, Ranunculus flammula | semiaquatic Eurasian perennial crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears |
| lizard's-tail, swamp lily, water dragon, Saururus cernuus | North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers |
| marsh elder, iva | Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers |
| marsh marigold, kingcup, meadow bright, May blob, cowslip, water dragon, Caltha palustris | swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups |
| parnassia, grass-of-Parnassus | Any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup |
| rush | grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems |
| sabbatia | Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers |
| sedge | grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers |
| shellflower, shell-flower, turtlehead, snakehead, snake-head, Chelone glabra | 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 |
| skirret, Sium sisarum | An Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root |
| skunk cabbage, polecat weed, foetid pothos, 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 |
| skunk cabbage, Lysichiton americanum | clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe |
| sweet flag, calamus, sweet calamus, myrtle flag, flagroot, Acorus calamus | perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots |
| water parsnip, Sium suave | stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water |
| water plantain, Alisma plantago-aquatica | marsh plant having clusters of small white or pinkish flowers and broad pointed or rounded leaves |
| wild calla, water arum, Calla palustris | plant of wetlands and bogs of temperate regions having small greenish flowers partly enclosed in a white spathe and red berries |
| yellow-eyed grass | Any of several rushlike plants, especially of the pine barrens of southern United States |
| Broader | aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant | A plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus / lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth |
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