Noun: bogbean 'bóg,been
- 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
"bogbean flowers create a beautiful display in wetland areas";
- water shamrock, buckbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata
Derived forms: bogbeans
Type of: aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant
Part of: genus Menyanthes, Menyanthes
Encyclopedia: Bogbean