The grass of Parnassus grew thick and white around me, with its moonlight tint of green in the veins.

Grass of Parnassus.

Grass of Parnassus is also the title of a book of poetry by Andrew Lang.

Clan badge: The Flower of the Grass of Parnassus.

Parnassia californica is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae known by the common name California Grass of Parnassus.

Grass of Parnassus Parnassia palustris is not a grass at all but a beautiful flowering plant which grows up to 12in tall in wet or marshy areas.

Several local species are also present, including narrow-leaved buckler-fern, Dryopteris carthusiana, lesser skullcap, Scutellaria minor, and grass of Parnassus, Parnassia palustris.

GRASS OF PARNASSUS.

Three Grass of Parnassus flowers appear on the Flag of Cumberland, a British county, as that flower grows on Cumberland's lofty fells.

Other plants that are largely confined to northern limestone areas include butterwort, Pinguicula vulgaris, maidenhair spleenwort, Asplenium trichomanes, and grass of Parnassus, Parnassia palustris.

Pines raise statelier shafts and give themselves room to grow,--gentians, shinleaf, and little grass of Parnassus in their golden checkered shadows; the meadow is white with violets and all outdoors keeps the clock.

But far below The peaks forbidden of the Muses' Hill, Grass of Parnassus, thy returning snow Between September and October chill Doth speak to me of Autumns long ago, And these kind faces that are with me still.

It may be as well to repeat in prose, what has already been said in verse, that Grass of Parnassus, the pretty Autumn flower, grows in the marshes at the foot of the Muses' Hill, and other hills, not at the top by any means.

These deserted sand dunes host an amazing variety of wild flowers: heath and marsh bedstraw, ragwort, meadow vetchling, tufted vetch, marsh cinquefoil, felwort, angelica, marsh valerian, and that Buchan beauty, grass of Parnassus; as well as rare orchids: spotted, and butterfly orchid.

Bog-bean, Grass of Parnassus' Western Marsh Orchid and Lousewort are found in the wet meadows and low marshes; and the extremely rare Large Brown Clover, Hairy Stonecrop and Pyrenean scurvygrass in the springwater marshes of the Hohe Rhön.

The genus Parnassia, also known as Grass of Parnassus or bog-stars, are plants in the family Celastraceae.

Such habitats are often becoming rare, and so species of Parnassia may have high conservation value.

Unlike Parnassia, however, its staminodes are small and lack glands.

A second area of diversity for Parnassia is North America and about 9 species occur there.

Lepuropetalon shares with Parnassia the pseudosessile leaves and the commissural stigmas.

Fames are the purple orchidfields and the witte Parnassia.

In Parnassia, the leaves are crowded into a basal rosette with a few cauline leaves above.

Parnassiaceae have only two genera, Lepuropetalon and Parnassia.

In Parnassia, the petals are showy and white or cream, with conspicuous veins that are usually green or gray.

In the moist dune valleys Parnassia, Dactylorhiza and Centaurium have sprung.

In 2001, a DNA study showed that Lepuropetalon and Parnassia were much closer to each other than to any others.

Parnassia glauca (N)

Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia)

In 1821, Samuel Frederick Gray put Parnassia in its own family, Parnassiaceae.

In 1930, Adolf Engler published descriptions of Lepuropetalon and Parnassia with detailed illustrations.

In 2000, an rbcL phylogeny of eudicots again put Lepuropetalon and Parnassia together, but with only weak statistical support.

The genus Parnassia was named by Linnaeus in 1753 for Mount Parnassus in Greece.

In 2006, a study of DNA sequences confirmed that Lepuropetalon and Parnassia form a strongly supported clade.

As Lepuropetalon and its sister Parnassia were being tossed out of Saxifragales, they were landing in Celastrales.

The larvae feed on Sanguisorba species, such as Sanguisorba officinalis and sometimes Parnassia palustris.

The ovules are attached to T-shaped placentas in Parnassia, and directly to the ovary wall in Lepuropetalon.

This study found Saxifragaceae sensu lato to be polyphyletic with Lepuropetalon, Parnassia, and several others unrelated to the core of the family.

Grass of Parnassus Parnassia palustris is not a grass at all but a beautiful flowering plant which grows up to 12in tall in wet or marshy areas.

In 2001, in a study that used much more DNA, Lepuropetalon again grouped with Parnassia, but with strong statistical support (98% bootstrap percentage).

One of his students was Willem Hoogendorp, the future mayor of Rotterdam to whom he dedicated his sonatas Harmonia Parnassia.

Several local species are also present, including narrow-leaved buckler-fern, Dryopteris carthusiana, lesser skullcap, Scutellaria minor, and grass of Parnassus, Parnassia palustris.