Definition of swamp plant Swamp plant
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| swamp plant - a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath | ||
| marsh plant, bog plant | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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, marsh marigold, may blob, meadow bright, cowslip, kingcup, water dragon swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups | ||
| rush (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line; "the linebackers were ready to stop a rush" | ||
| acorus calamus, flagroot, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag, calamus 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, symplocarpus foetidus, skunk cabbage clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow 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, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes | ||
| american brooklime, veronica americana, brooklime plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers | ||
| european brooklime, veronica beccabunga, brooklime plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers | ||
| 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 | ||
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