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Definition of Pickerelweed

1. Noun. American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds.

Definition of Pickerelweed

1. Noun. (American English) Any of several freshwater plants, of the genus ''Pontederia'', that have heart-shaped leaves ¹

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Definition of Pickerelweed

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Literary usage of Pickerelweed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collections for an Essay Towards a Materia Medica of the United States by Benjamin Smith Barton (1900)
"pickerelweed. Blue Spike. Blossoms blue. Common on the borders of ponds and rivers. July. LILIUM. Linn. Gen. Plant. 371. ..."

2. Water Quality Indicators Guide: Surface Waters by Charles R. Terrell (1993)
"pickerelweed (Pontederia) - Lower Left The leaves are heart-shaped and are borne on thick stems. The flowers are bluish and found in a terminal spike. ..."

3. Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from Their Ores by John Percy (1875)
"... are arrowhead (Sagittaria), duckweed (Lemna), pickerelweed (Ponle- deria), pondweed (Potamogeton), ..."

4. Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from Their Ores by John Percy (1875)
"... are arrowhead (Sagittaria), duckweed (Lemna), pickerelweed (Ponte- deria), pondweed (Potamogeton), ..."

5. Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia by Geographical Society of Philadelphia (1912)
"... filled with water lilies, spatter- dock, pickerelweed, wampee, rushes, sedges and other aquatic and marsh plants. The saw grass is a tall sedge, ..."

6. Collections for an Essay Towards a Materia Medica of the United States by Benjamin Smith Barton (1900)
"pickerelweed. Blue Spike. Blossoms blue. Common on the borders of ponds and rivers. July. LILIUM. Linn. Gen. Plant. 371. ..."

7. Water Quality Indicators Guide: Surface Waters by Charles R. Terrell (1993)
"pickerelweed (Pontederia) - Lower Left The leaves are heart-shaped and are borne on thick stems. The flowers are bluish and found in a terminal spike. ..."

8. Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from Their Ores by John Percy (1875)
"... are arrowhead (Sagittaria), duckweed (Lemna), pickerelweed (Ponle- deria), pondweed (Potamogeton), ..."

9. Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from Their Ores by John Percy (1875)
"... are arrowhead (Sagittaria), duckweed (Lemna), pickerelweed (Ponte- deria), pondweed (Potamogeton), ..."

10. Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia by Geographical Society of Philadelphia (1912)
"... filled with water lilies, spatter- dock, pickerelweed, wampee, rushes, sedges and other aquatic and marsh plants. The saw grass is a tall sedge, ..."

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