| The plant, known as turkeybeard, or mountain asphodel, is a rare species of lily. |
| Also present are bog asphodel, deer grass and sedges such as slender sedge and bog sedge. |
| The poets, probably taking their cue from this, have celebrated the asphodel in song as the flower of the immortals. |
| Hopping across fallen blocks of masonry, dancing over the asphodels, offering piggy-back rides was one way of selling ancient history to two young girls. |
| Bog asphodels and a circle of cotton grass brightened the rushes. |
| The sweet herbal aroma of bog myrtle drifts from the shallow mires that harbour a tangle of willows and silver-barked birch or are spattered yellow with asphodels. |
