GardenWeb Glossary of Botanical Terms
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- bog (adj. boggy)
- 1. An area of little or no drainage acidified by rotting vegetation, often with some open water surrounded by a floating mat of sedges, ericaceous shrubs, acidophilous species, and sphagnum mosses. A quagmire, which trembles or gives way underfoot. 2. Loosely, and not technically correct, a marsh, swamp, moor, fen, muskeg, or heath.
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- bog soil
- A mucky or peaty surface horizon with a peat underlayment.
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- peat bog
- An area with a wet, spongy, acidic substrate, consisting mainly of accumulated layers of sphagnum moss and upon which other plants, and even trees, can grow.
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