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• a family of flowering plants of mostly perennial herbaceous plants. The members are cosmopolitan in distribution but native primarily to northern cold and temperate regions. Members of the family have leaves that characteristically alternate along the stem and are sometimes deeply lobed or form rosettes.

Use for: SRGC

• a large Scottish horticultural society founded in Edinburgh in 1933. It promotes the cultivation, study, and preservation of alpine, rock garden, woodland, and bulb plants. Operating as a registered charity, it connects an international community of plant enthusiasts.

• a genus of mosses that grow in wet acidic areas (such as bogs or swamps) where their remains become compacted with other plant debris to form peat

Use for: peat moss

• a mass of dehydrated sphagnum plants used as a surgical dressing especially during World War I