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Menyanthes trifoliata
Also called Buckbean, Bog Bean, Common Bogbean, Bog Buckbean, Bog Myrtle, Marsh Trefoil, Marsh Clover
Bogbean is a single-species aquatic or marsh perennial with white star-like flowers, grown in wet bog and fen conditions. Its key to growing is constant wet, cool, sunny to part-shaded roots, typically in a bog garden or shallow pond margin.
Menyanthes is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Menyanthaceae containing the single species Menyanthes trifoliata. The North American form is often referred to as M. trifoliata var. minor Michx. It is known in English by the common names bogbean, marsh trefoil and buckbean.
The rootstock can be ground into an unpalatable flour for emergency use.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Menyanthes by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
