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pickerel weed

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Noun1.pickerel weed - American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and pondspickerel weed - American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds
aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant - a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth


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Water Shield, Water Celery, Hardstem Bulrush, Pickerel Weed, and White Water Lily also create underwater habitat important for spawning fish.
A perfect water-plant, with clear blue colour and elegant form, is the pickerel weed (Pontederia cordata).
Some native plants that love to have wet feet are buttonbush, pickerel weed, blue flag iris, lizard's tail, jewelweed, mist flower, Joe Pye weed, turtlehead, pitcher plant, and swamp rose mallow.
 
 
 
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