marsh plant

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marsh plant - a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heathbog plant, swamp plantlesser spearwort, Ranunculus flammula - semiaquatic Eurasian perennial crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears; naturalized in New Zealandgreater spearwort, Ranunculus lingua - semiaquatic European crowfoot with leaves shaped like spearskingcup, marsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, Caltha palustris, cowslip, water dragon - swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercupsrush - grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stemsflagroot, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag, Acorus calamus, calamus - perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic rootsCalla 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 berriesLysichiton americanum, skunk cabbage - clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathefoetid 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 spatheiva, 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 Americasedge - grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowerscattail - tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshessabbatia - any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshesyellow-eyed grass - any of several rushlike plants, especially of the pine barrens of southern United StatesAlisma plantago-aquatica, water plantain - marsh plant having clusters of small white or pinkish flowers and broad pointed or rounded leavesarrow grass, Triglochin maritima - tufted perennial found in shallow water or marshland; sometimes poisons livestockgrass-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 buttercupChelone glabra, shellflower, shell-flower, snakehead, snake-head, 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 purpleAmerican brooklime, Veronica americana, brooklime - plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowersbrooklime, European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga - European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North AmericaSium suave, water parsnip - stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; northern United States and Asiagreater water parsnip, Sium latifolium - large stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; EuropeSium sisarum, skirret - an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous rootaquatic 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 hyacinthlizard's-tail, Saururus cernuus, swamp lily, water dragon - North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers