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Pickerel weed

noun

American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds. Synonyms: pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata, wampee.

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... out yonder, just beside the clump of arrow-shaped pickerel weed! Tim Reardon's heart beat joyfully, as he turned and saw the ripples receding from the spot where the fish had jumped. He swung his long rod, dropped the troll skilfully near the blue blossoms that adorned the clump of weed, and drew it ...

— The Rival Campers Ashore - The Mystery of the Mill • Ruel Perley Smith

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... the tranquil lake flecked with islands, which looked like floating gardens of green on a purple mirror. Near us a wooden bridge led across a shallow cove passing between myriads of pickerel weed whose light purple spathes formed a striking mass of color. Beneath it long, slender patches of silvery blue rushes made magic hedges, so symmetrical as to seem clipped by the hand of art. So ethereal in their loveliness were they, we could account for their presence in no other ...

— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

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