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n. - Perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves.

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  • Other important plant species in the freshwater habitats include pondweed (Potamogeton crispus), water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), tape-grass (Ottelia alismoides), and...
  • Pinus abies, and the buckbean, or Menyanthes trifoliata, etc., besides the common birch and other European plants.
  • Cranberry bogs harbor a range of species that are normally associated with more northerly ecoregions such as cranberry (Vaccinium spp.), blueberry (Vaccinium spp.), bog...
  • A lovely plant; it is the buckbean or marshtrefoil, and generally grows in some boggy spot, such as this.
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