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Definition of Pickerel weed
1. Noun. American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds.
Group relationships: Genus Pontederia, Pontederia
Generic synonyms: Aquatic Plant, Hydrophyte, Hydrophytic Plant, Water Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickerel Weed
Literary usage of Pickerel weed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"... 1688-1757, professor of botany in Padua.] Seven or eight species, natives of
America. 1. Pontederia cordata L. Pickerel-weed. (Fig. 915. ..."
2. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"PONTEDERIA, pickerel weed. (J. Pontedera, an early Italian botanist.) P. cordata.
Linn. COMMON P. Everywhere in shallow water ; stem l°-2° high, ..."
3. Nantucket Wild Flowers by Alice Owen Albertson (1921)
"Pickerel-weed. Pontederia: plant dedicated to Pontedera, a professor at ...
Tall plants of Pickerel-weed massed on the edges of deep blue ponds or even ..."
4. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"PONTEDERIA, pickerel weed. (J. Pontedera, an early Italian botanist.) P. cordata,
Linn. COMMON P. Everywhere in shallow water; stem l°-2° high, naked below, ..."
5. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"A somewhat common green-house member of the pickerel-weed family is known as the
water-hyacinth and is similar in its flowering clusters to the rather rare ..."
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