Menyanthes

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A bog-bean dominated habitat in Ayrshire, Scotland

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,[4] marsh trefoil[5] and buckbean.

Description

Menyanthes trifoliata has a horizontal rhizome with alternate, trifoliate leaves. The inflorescence is an erect raceme of white flowers. The buds are rose-pink in color. The flowers when fully open look like "white stars" and the petals are fringed with white whiskers.[6]

The species occurs in fens and bogs in Asia, Europe, and North America. In eastern North America, it is considered to be a diagnostic fen species.[7] It sometimes creates big quagmires with its thick roots.

Taxonomy

The name Menyanthes comes from Greek menyein 'disclosing' and anthos 'flower' in reference to the sequential opening of flowers on the inflorescence.

Fossil record

One fossil seed of Menyanthes trifoliata has been extracted from borehole samples of the Middle Miocene fresh water deposits in Nowy Sacz Basin, West Carpathians, Poland.[8]

Conservation

The species is protected in the United States.[9] It is a host plant to the endangered bog buck moth, Hemileuca maia menyanthevora.[10]

Uses

The rootstock can be ground into an unpalatable flour for emergency use.[9] The plant has a characteristic strong and bitter taste, which can be used in schnapps.[11] The British Flora Medica (1845) says about the plant: "The peasants of Westrogothia frequently use the leaves instead of hops for preserving their beer, which is thus rendered of an agreeable flavour as well as defended from acescensy".[12]

In China, the plant is known as "sleeping herbs" (Script error: No such module "Lang".) or "herbs that calm consciousness" (Script error: No such module "Lang".). Guangdong Xing Yu (1678), a Qing dynasty book by Chiu-Da-Jun, records: "Eat [Menyanthes trifoliata;] makes people sleep well." The Compendium of Materia Medica records: "[Treats] insomnia, restlessness".[citation needed]

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  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Plants For A Future: Menyanthes trifoliata - L." Retrieved 2025-05-07.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stevens, John (1987). The National Trust book of Wild Flower Gardening. London: Dorling Kindersley. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-86318-219-8.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Godwin, Kevin S.; Shallenberger, James P.; Leopold, Donald J.; Bedford, Barbara L. (2002). "Linking landscape properties to local hydrogeologic gradients and plant species occurrence in minerotrophic fens of New York State, USA: A Hydrogeologic Setting (HGS) framework". Wetlands. 22 (4): 722–37. doi:10.1672/0277-5212(2002)022[0722:LLPTLH]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 20623975.
  8. ^ Łańcucka-Środoniowa M.: Macroscopic plant remains from the freshwater Miocene of the Nowy Sącz Basin (West Carpathians, Poland) [Szczątki makroskopowe roślin z miocenu słodkowodnego Kotliny Sądeckiej (Karpaty Zachodnie, Polska)]. Acta Palaeobotanica 1979 20 (1): 3-117.
  9. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Peterson, Lee Allen (1978). A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 22. ISBN 0-395-20445-3. OCLC 3541725.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bog Buck Moth". U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Röver, Friedrich (1824). Der Hausfreund auf dem Lande, oder Sammlung erprobter Rathschläge, Recepte und Mittel, zur eigenen Berathung und Selbsthülfe, vorzüglich beym einsamen Landleben für Hausväter und Hausmütter (in Deutsch). Vol. 1. Magdeburg: Wilhelm Heinrichshofen. p. 27.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1845). The British Flora Medica, or, History of the medicinal Plants of Great Britain. Vol. 1. London: Henry G. Bohn. p. 106.

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Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Buck-Bean".

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