pickerel-weed

In July, the blue pontederia or pickerel-weed blooms in large beds in the shallow parts of our pleasant river, and swarms with yellow butterflies in continual motion.

Nature 2006

But if the stream be too deep and wide, and the lilies are anchored far out among their broad pads, -- a floral Venice, with the blue spikes and arrowy leaves of the pickerel-weed for campaniles and towers, -- there are yet "lilies of the field" over which you may profitably meditate, remembering that Solomon Ben-David was not so arrayed.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

The blue pickerel-weed (_Pontederia_) is the type of a family of which there are few common representatives (Fig.  84, _I_, _K_).

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

Among the productions of the river's margin, I must not forget the pickerel-weed, which grows just on the edge of the water, and shoots up

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

There were water-lilies both golden and waxy-white, and blue spikes of pickerel-weed, and clumps of fragrant musk.

'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

Broad leaves of the arrow-head and pickerel-weed give shelter to the coot, bobbing her head and neck as she makes nervous journeys through the water, sometimes scratching a long streak across its mirror-like surface as she uses both feet and wings in her haste to escape from the lone pedestrian.

Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

The pale, golden-hearted arrow-head neighbored the homespun pickerel-weed, and -- oh, mysterious glory from an oozy bed!

Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Alice Brown 1902

There were banks now, and they were fringed with green borders of aquatic plants, rushes, and broad spatter-docks, and flags, and arrow-heads, and marsh-marigolds, and round-leaved pond-lilies, and pointed pickerel-weed.

Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892

The streams shrunken to rivulets that trickled through crevices between broad flat stones and oozed through beds of water-cress and crow-foot, horse-mint and pickerel-weed, the wells low, cisterns empty, and recourse for water to barrels and the sunken ponds.

The Heart of the Hills John Fox 1891

They made as constant a part of the ocean's border as the pads or pickerel-weed do of that of a pond.

Cape Cod 1865