bog cotton

British  

noun

1. another name for cotton grass

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Example Sentences

The council’s education officer, Paula Farrell, stood on a wooden walkway built over the bog’s surface and pointed out the signs of a healthy, living peatland — bright tufts of yellow bog asphodel, the purple flowers of cross-leaved heath, tufts of white bog cotton.

From New York Times

Above are tumbling slopes of bog cotton, bracken and foxgloves.

From The Guardian

We walk up through a bog cotton meadow, the seed heads lit like Einstein’s hair.

From The Guardian

But at Birkdale, women in bonnets and long hems have played over the shifting sands of time, gouging brassie shots through the yellow rattle and black knapweed and bog cotton, while overhead the ruddy darters and meadow pippits circled the Lancashire coastline.

From Washington Post

Smaller species of flowers were the wispy delicate bog cotton and more familiar bog iris.

From Washington Post