bog cotton
Britishnoun
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Smaller species of flowers were the wispy delicate bog cotton and more familiar bog iris.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2016
The Ceanabhan, pronounced Kanovan, is the bog cotton, and the Monadan is a plant with a red berry found on marshy mountains.
From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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