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Quaking bog
Quaking bog, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water that it shakes when trodden upon. Quaking grass. (Bot.) (a) One of several grasses of the genus Briza, having slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets, which quake and rattle in the wind. Briza maxima is the large quaking grass; B. media and B. minor are the smaller kinds. (b) Rattlesnake grass (Glyceria Canadensis).

Meaning of Quaking bog from wikipedia

- Blanket bogs do not occur north of the 65th latitude in the northern hemisphere. A quaking bog, schwingmoor, or swingmoor is a form of floating bog occurring...
- system Quaking Bog - 5-acre acid bog tucked into the wooded hills of Theodore Wirth Park on the western edge of Minneapolis, Minnesota The Bog Garden...
- around 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) in length. Black Lake, a rare example of quaking bog or schwingmoor, has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest...
- a National Natural Landmark in 1973 as the only remaining open-water quaking bog in Illinois. The site also contains woodlands, savanna, marshes, prairie...
- Matley Bog is an ancient woodland bog in the New Forest, Hampshire, England. It is a sphagnum quaking bog with adjacent heather heathland. The stream that...
- the presence of a specific habitat type: transitional mires and quaking bogs. The Red Bog SAC is located close to Blessington, County Wicklow, in the townland...
- non-forested habitat with wet, often calcium-rich soils. These include bogs, marl fens, quaking bogs, cobble s****s, and other calcareous habitats. This tolerance...
- lawns, flushes and soaks”. The SAC includes two basins of high bog, including wet quaking bog with well-formed pools, with a central mineral ridge running...
- pink ladyslipper (Cypripedium acaule). Three small bog lakes (0.4-1.0 acres), surrounded by quaking bog mats, are found in the interior of the swamp. Uplands...
- yields underfoot. Ombrotrophic types of quagmire may be called quaking bog (quivering bog). Minerotrophic types can be named with the term quagfen. Some...