noun
- a perennial aquatic plant with white or pinkish flowers that grows in marshes and bogs
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The bogbean’s distinctive three-leaflet leaves floated on the pond’s surface.
- Bogbean flowers bloom in late spring with delicate white petals.
- The wetland restoration project included planting bogbean along the marsh edges.
- Traditional herbalists once used bogbean leaves for medicinal purposes.
- Bogbean thrives in acidic bog conditions where few other plants can survive.
- The nature guide pointed out the bogbean growing near the cattails.