Bog Rosemary is a typical plant of peat bogs, it won`t tolerate alcaline soils for long. In the garden it is best kept in an artifical peat bog, where it prefers a somewhat drier spot, but it will tolerate even a few centimeters of flooding after heavy rain falls. Since it narrow leafs resemble those of rosemary it is commonly called Bog Rosemary, although there is no relationship to rosemary at all.

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This sedge form dense lawns in moors - that is to say: it used to form them for in Germany it is now extinct. It grows up to twenty centimeters and bears globular spikelets.

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 Despite its common name this is a sedge of fens with lime soils. It became so rare in the wild that it was put on the red list of endangered species. It blooms in early summer, the flower spikes are light brown.

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The spoonleaf sundew can easily be mistaken for Drosera rotundifolia zu verwechseln, it looks much like a smaller version of the latter. Its home are the wet peat bogs in Europa and Northamerica. In the garden you can keep it successfully in an artifical peat bog, where it prefers very wet spots.

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A beautiful cottongrass that forms dense tussocks and thrives on wet soils. Sometimes it spreads into very shallow water. In May it bears globular `dabbers` on its stalks that are much in demand for flower bouquets. This cotton grass grows best on acid soils.

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This is a Northamerican cottongrass with an unsual colour. It is wooly like all cottongrasses, but the flowerheads are brownish, not white.

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This cottongrass grows only on really acid soils. It produces no runners but forms small clumps. The wooly fruits apear late in spring and stand upright on top of the stalks. It is one of the most important plants in the process of generating peat. In former times its wool was used to stuff cushions with and to make wicks for lamps.

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This cottongras is at home in the northern parts of the USA and in Canada. For a cottongras it becomes quite large (up to 90 cms high), but usualy it remains much smaller in the garden (around 20 cms). Its flowers are white and pendant, with showy green bracts. By this it is discerned from all other cottongrasses.

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No violet but a relative of the primroses. It is native to most parts of Eurasia, but rare in Europe. The water-violet grows in shallow water but is able to develope a terrestric form in very wet soil. It needs full light and is sensitive to too calcacerous water - it will simply disolve in it.

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The Marsh Pennywort will form a low cushion at the edge of pond - provided there are no bigger and more vigorous plants near it. The leaves are what makes this plants special, while the flowers are small and unimpressive.

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A native plant from wet and moist meadows (but got no problems with ordinary soils as well). Very attractive during blooming season, and an impressive plant during the rest of the time. It can form huge tussocks (up to two meters diameter). The leafs are grey-green and in late summer ad autumn the plant ...

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This variety of Purple Moor-Grass was selected because of it sturdy habit. Its stems remain upright during winter and they are one the few garden jewels at that time of the year. This gras prefers neutral to acid soils, and it can also be used in a ...

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A variety that grows sturdy and bear spikes that turn purplish in autumn.

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Pillwort looks like a tiny rush but it is a true fern. To protect its spores from drying out, the plant has encased them in small balls - hence the name Pillwort. If the plant is removed from soil the `pills` can be found around the roots.

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The Moor Devil`s-Bit form dense clumps from which it sends up high stalks with semi-globular pinkish flowers in midsummer and early autumn. Its rhizoms look peculiar: on one end it is fresh and there it bears the new shoots, on the other end it appears like dead and snapped off. A legend tells the devil ...

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 While in Germany cultivation of the southern succisella was regarded impossible (`bizarre` was the comment of the official when we asked for permission to grow this plant), the UK already developed varieties of this species. They even grow on ordinary garden soil if it is not too ...

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 Linné included this plant with the St. Johnsworts, but today it is put into a genus of its own. It occurs along the eastern coast of the USA in peat bog, and often it can be found growing together with cranberries. It is rarely offered in Europe, although it is of easy culture in limeless soils.

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Although this relative of our native mossberry comes from Northern America, it can be found in some moors in Europe, mainly in moors that were used to gain peat. Obviously there was once a time when peat pits were used for fruit production. The cranberry is a tiny creeping bush with nice bellshaped ...

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Mossberries cover the soil of moors with a delicate trellis of thin runners. In summer and autumn they bear quite eye-catching red berries. They are ediable, but raw they are not very tasty. However they become very tasty when cooked and used for marmelade or compote. It is said that in Finland they ...

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