Parnassia palustris
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Parnassia palustris is a species of the Grass of Parnassus genus.
It is the county flower of Cumberland and Sutherland in the United Kingdom.
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This flower has the distinction of appearing on the county arms of Cumbria. The name is inherited from ancient Greece. Evidently the cattle on Mount Parnassus appreciated the plant; hence it was an ‘honorary grass'.
