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Grass-of-Parnassus   Listen
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grass-of-Parnassus  n.  Any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale buttercuplike flower.
Synonyms: parnassia, grass of Parnassus.





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... gentian meadows is the perfect small fern for a bit of wet ground, and is the green to be used with all wild flowers of like places. One day last autumn I had a bouquet of grass-of-Parnassus, ladies' tresses, and gentian massed thickly with these ferns, and the posey lived for days on the sunny window shelf of the den (for gentians close their eyes in shade),—a bit of the ...
— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright


Words linked to "Grass-of-Parnassus" :   Parnassia palustris, parnassia, genus Parnassia, bog plant, bog star, marsh plant


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