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bog cotton

British  

noun

  1. another name for cotton grass

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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)