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[2] and buckbean.

Oct 28, 2020 · Bog bean, also commonly referred to as buckbean, is a species that is native to much of Asia, Europe, and North America and is endangered in Korea and portions of the United States. In nature, they only occur in bogs and fens, making them a diagnostic species.

Oct 27, 2021 · What is a Bogbean? A wildflower that needs excessive moisture to exist, you’ll find the bogbean plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) blooming in areas where most flowers would die from overly wet soil. It is an aquatic, rhizomatous perennial plant, returning year after year with white flowers that are enticingly beautiful.

Information on the Benefits and Side Effects of the Medicinal Herb Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata) and Its Properties and Traditional Uses

Bogbean is a plant. The bogbean fruit resembles a small bean and is commonly found in swamps or bogs, which is the reason for its name. People use the bogbean leaf to make medicine.

The starry, white flowers of Bogbean can bring the green waters of a pond to life in spring. Found in shallow ponds, fens, bogs and marshes, this aquatic perennial blooms from March until June. Its common name comes from the leaves, which are shaped a little like those of broad beans.

Jan 17, 2019 · Bogbean, known scientifically as menyanthes trifoliata, is a semi-aquatic plant that thrives in soft wetlands like marshes and swamps. The name bogbean may be an accurate description of this plant but it has a number of other common names.

---Habitat---The Buckbean, or Bogbean, grows in spongy bogs, marshes and shallow water throughout Europe, being rather scarce in the south of England, though common in the north and in Scotland.

Aug 31, 2017 · Bogbean is a rhizomatous emergent aquatic perennial plant that grows up to 15 to 30 cm in height (above water). The plant is found growing in various wetland habitats such as fens, pools, marshes, older woods, ditches, bogs, lake shores, swampy prairies, particularly in acid or oligotrophic conditions.

Also known in Webb's Irish Flora (1977) as Bearnán lachan, this extremely pretty little plant loves having its feet wet. From March to June, Bog bean can be found in shallow water, fens, bog s and slow flowing water such as canals.